The Sound of Undoing
eBook - ePub

The Sound of Undoing

A Memoir in Essays

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Sound of Undoing

A Memoir in Essays

About this book

Winner of the 2024 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award
Winner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award
Winner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Academic Press Award
Shortlisted for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize A memoir in essays, The Sound of Undoing deconstructs the way sound has overwhelmingly shaped Paige Towers's life. Each essay focuses on a different sound, some perceptibleā€”like the sound of a loon call or gunshotā€”and others abstractā€”like the sound of awakening. Given a hypersensitivity to noise from which she has both suffered and benefited since childhood, Towers uses these sounds as a starting point for making sense of past events. She reflects on the estrangement of a beloved sister, sexual abuse and assault, and the link between mental illness and noise in her family, as well as nature, religion, violence, and other themes. Experimental in form and provocative in content, The Sound of Undoing also makes use of research on silence, nature and noise pollution, listening, sound art, autonomous sensory meridian response, and the acoustic environment in general. By exploring memories and feelings triggered by certain noises, this lyrical meditation untangles a life infused with meaning through sound.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Prologue
  9. Part 1
  10. The Sound of Cutting
  11. The Sound of Control
  12. The Sound of Awakening
  13. The Sound of a Loon Call
  14. Part 2
  15. The Sound of Undoing
  16. The Sound of Nothing
  17. The Sound of an Imitated Ocean
  18. The Sound of the Mute Button
  19. Part 3
  20. The Sound of a Mimicker
  21. The Sound of an Animal
  22. The Sound of a Whisper
  23. The Sound of a Split Throat
  24. The Sound of the Unsaid
  25. Part 4
  26. The Sound of a Poet
  27. The Sound of a Shot Spotted
  28. The Sound of a Slow Bleed
  29. The Sound of Morning Quiet
  30. Epilogue
  31. Bibliography
  32. Acknowledgments
  33. About Paige Towers
  34. Series List