Description
In an unnamed coastal city where refugees have gathered, a mother searches the cliffside roads for her missing daughter, her grief escalating into a desperate act that leaves her other children behind. Witnessing the tragedy is another woman—newly pregnant, traveling for work—whose own losses echo back through the memories of a family flight from a distant war, including the slow disappearance of language, country, and self. Moving between these intertwined lives, the novel traces how motherhood can become both refuge and burden, and how history persists in the body, in speech, and in silence. With lyrical intensity and formally ambitious craft, it challenges inherited European perspectives and reframes language as something fragile, stolen, and remade. The result is a devastating, compassionate meditation on migration, memory, and the many forms of loss that refuse to stay in the past.
Available Editions
paperback
Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Published Jan 1, 2024
159 pages
ISBN: 9781558613034
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First Published
2024
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Singularity by Balsam Karam.