What is the significance for you in translating the story of their bodies into a body of language?
My motivation had to do with the way certain people’s history is silenced and has no written form. The experience the women in my book have with sexual violence doesn’t have language. Aliide is the older character in the book and is in her 70s. She doesn’t have language to talk about this kind of experience. When I think about my grandmother’s generation, it is obvious that they wouldn’t tell these stories out loud, but they must express it somehow. They express it through the reaction in their bodies, because if you are a human you have to react somehow. Despite these silences, women manage to communicate with each other and recognize each other’s shared experiences. Can you talk about how you came to understand the way women tell their stories of trauma in ways that are indirect or even nonverbal? As a child, I heard a story about my older relative who was a young girl during World War II and was living with her mother in the countryside. One day, they found a wounded solider in thei
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