Silence & Song e-bog

Immigrants lost in the blistering expanse of the Sonoran Desert, problem bears, bats pollinating saguaros, a Good Samaritan filling tanks at emergency water stations, and the terrified runaway boy who shoots him pierce the heart and mind of Rosana Derais. "e;Vanishings,"e; the first story in Silence & Song, is a love letter, a prayer to these strangers whose lives penetrate and transform Rosana's own sorrow. In "e;Translations,"e; the prose poem connecting the two longer fictions, child refugees at a multilingual literacy center in Salt Lake City discover the merciful "e;translation"e; of dance and pantomime. The convergence of two disparate events-a random murder in Seattle and the nuclear accident at Chernobyl-catalyze the startling, eruptive form of the concluding piece,"e;requiem: home: and the rain, after."e; Narrated in first person by the killer's sister and plural first person by the "e;liquidators"e; who come to the Evacuation Zone to bury entire villages poisoned by radioactive fallout, "e;requiem"e; navigates the immediate trauma of murder and environmental disaster; personal and global devastation; and the remarkable recovery of the miraculously diverse more-than-human world.