{"product_id":"silence-is-a-sense-9781643752556","title":"Silence Is a Sense","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Lyrical, moving, and revealing.\" \u003cbr\u003e --Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGirl with a Pearl Earring\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee's escape from civil war--and the healing power of community. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of her neighbors across the way. She is an outsider, a mute voyeur, safe behind her windows, and she sees it all--the sex, the fights, the happy and unhappy families. Journeying from her war-torn Syrian homeland to this unnamed British city has traumatized her into silence, and her only connection to the world is the column she writes for a magazine under the pseudonym \"the Voiceless,\" where she tries to explain the refugee experience without sensationalizing it--or revealing anything about herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gradually, though, the boundaries of her world expand. She ventures to the corner store, to a bookstore and a laundromat, and to a gathering at a nearby mosque. And it isn't long before she finds herself involved in her neighbors' lives. When an anti-Muslim hate crime rattles the neighborhood, she has to make a choice: Will she remain a voiceless observer, or become an active participant in a community that, despite her best efforts, is quickly becoming her own? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Layla AlAmmar, a Kuwaiti-American writer and brilliant student of Arab literature, delivers a complex and fluid book about memory, revolution, loss, and safety. Most of all, \u003ci\u003eSilence is a Sense\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us just how fundamental human connection is to survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Algonquin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643752556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Layla Alammar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41573936955573,"sku":"9781643752556","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_11e5baf2-a80c-4618-ab82-4c090a69dbd1.jpg?v=1643687247","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/silence-is-a-sense-9781643752556","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}