Shifting the Silence
By Etel Adnan
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By Etel Adnan
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A heart-rending meditation on aging, grief, and the universal experience of facing down death.
Shifting 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...






















