Silent Girl

By Tricia Dower

Silent Girl explores the experiences of unforgettable characters as they follow trajectories unimagined by Shakespeare, including a young girl who is unwittingly sold to traffickers after losing her mother in the 2004 tsunami in the title story; an ambitious, proud student in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan who finds her dreams taken hostage in Kesh Kumay; a young woman in an interracial marriage who devises a desperate plan to help her tortured husband after his return from Vietnam in Nobody; I Myself; two women and an older man who discover how fluid the boundaries of gender can be in Cocktails With Charles; a woman who constructs a life on remembered pain after her husband disappears with their baby daughter in Deep Dark Waves; a mother and son who wrestle for control of their Alberta farm in Passing Through; an eleven-year-old girl who stumbles across incest and her own emerging sexuality in Not Meant To Know; and a genetically-rare people who struggle with shifting gender politics and an environmentally ravaged world in The Snow People, 30-46 AGM.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
• Release date: Nov 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781771330336

Tricia Dower

Tricia Dower was a business executive before reinventing herself as a writer in 2002. Having resided in sixteen different towns and cities across North America, Dower now lives and writes in Victoria, British Columbia. With a degree in English literature, she has worked as a teacher and in marketing, advertising, human resources, and corporate communications. Dower’s short fiction has appeared in Room of One’s Own, The New Quarterly, Hemispheres, Cicada, NEO, Insolent Rudder and Big Muddy. Silent Girl is her first book.

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