Daughters of Silence

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Publication Year:
2019

ISBN-13: 9781773101033

<p><b>Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self and family.</b></p><p>Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie, a cosmopolitan flight attendant from Canada, finds herself stranded in Addis Ababa &#8212; her birth place.</p><p>Grieving her mother&#39;s recent death, Dessie heads to see her grandfather, the Shaleqa &#8212; compelled as much by duty as her own will. But Dessie&#39;s conflicted past stands in her way. Just as the volcano&#39;s eruption disordered Dessie&#39;s work life, so too does her mother&#39;s death cause seismic disruptions in the fine balance of self-deceptions and false histories that uphold her family.</p><p>As Dessie reacquaints herself with her grandfather&#39;s house, familiar yet strangely alien to her diasporic sensibilities, she pieces together the family secrets: the trauma of dictatorship and civil war, the shame of unwed motherhood, the abuse met with silence that gives shape to the mystery of her mother&#39;s life.</p><p>Reminiscent of the deeply immersive writing of Taiye Selasi and Arundhati Roy, Rebecca Fisseha&#39;s <i>Daughters of Silence</i> is psychologically astute and buoyed both by metaphor and by the vibrant colours of Ethiopia. It&#39;s an impressive debut.</i>