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Daughters of silence : a novel / Rebecca Fisseha.

by Fisseha, Rebecca, 1980-

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Goose Lane Editions, 2019.

Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.

Flight attendants -- Fiction.

Ethiopia -- Fiction.

9781773101026 (trade pbk.)

276 p. ; 22 cm.

"Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie, a cosmopolitan flight attendant from Canada, finds herself stranded in Addis Ababa — her birth place. Grieving her mother's recent death, Dessie heads to see her grandfather, the Shaleqa — compelled as much by duty as her own will. But Dessie's conflicted past stands in her way. Just as the volcano's eruption disordered Dessie's work life, so too does her mother's death cause seismic disruptions in the fine balance of self-deceptions and false histories that uphold her family. As Dessie reacquaints herself with her grandfather's house, familiar yet strangely alien to her diasporic sensibilities, she pieces together the family secrets: the trauma of dictatorship and civil war, the shame of unwed motherhood, the abuse met with silence that gives shape to the mystery of her mother's life."--Publisher.

Canadian fiction.

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