Name: Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh's review of Shifting the Silence by Etel Adnan
Item: Shifting the Silence
Rating: 5
Author: Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh

Etel Adnan

A heart-rending meditation on aging, grief, and the universal experience of facing deathShifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the view of the sea from Adnan's window in Brittany in a poignant often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic.

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Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh

Beautiful meditation on what life is by a woman reaching the end of it. It reads like a long prose poem and is both grounding and inspiring.

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