Shifting the Silence - Etel Adnan Blondell Cummings Stephanie Weber

Stephanie Weber

In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony

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Shifting the Silence - Etel Adnan Blondell Cummings Stephanie WeberShifting the Silence breaks the taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short, unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan grapples with the breadth of her life at ninety five, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own approaching death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, the ongoing war in Syria, Mars missions, and Adnans view of the sea out of her window in