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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 perceptible-like the sound of a loon call or gunshot-and others abstract-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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Sound of Drawing
Part 1
The Sound of Cutting
Causality
The Sound of Control
Sick
The Sound of Awakening
Therapy
The Sound of a Loon Call
Communal
Part 2
The Sound of Undoing
Trauma
The Sound of Nothing
Deafness
The Sound of an Imitated Ocean
Art
The Sound of the Mute Button
Change
Part 3
The Sound of a Mimicker
Disruption
The Sound of an Animal
Urban
The Sound of a Whisper
ASMR
The Sound of a Split Throat
Perception
The Sound of the Unsaid
Relationships
Part 4
The Sound of a Poet
Violence
The Sound of a Shot Spotted
Lines
The Sound of a Slow Bleed
Absence
The Sound of Morning Quiet
Epilogue
Source Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
