Unspeakable: the Things We Cannot Say / Harriet Shawcross, 335 p.
A curious combination of memoir and research into the causes, benefits, and dangers of human silence. The author experienced a period of selective mutism as an adolescent, and looks at that condition, as well as other occasions for silence such as certain monastic traditions and post-traumatic stress. Unusual and compelling.
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