Silence Is My Mother Tongue
earliest edition we have, 2018 Graywolf Press, 2020 208 pages
A searing novel of immigration, judgement and sacrifice and the powerful bonds forged in the crucible of refugee camp life from an internationally-acclaimed writer, Silence is My Mother Tongue dissects society's ability to wage war on its own women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment. "On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets t...
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