The Wife Tree by Dorothy Speak

Author:Dorothy Speak [Speak, Dorothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Rural, Sociology, Social Science, General
ISBN: 9780307365941
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2001-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

November 28

Dear girls,

…Far from feeling threatened by my sightlessness, I am reassured, because all around me are comforting signs of life. My other senses are growing very keen. Every day now I hear the winter wind hugging the windows and whistling round the front door, snow sliding off the roof, icicles letting go of the eaves, and when I step out onto the porch to collect the evening paper, its newsprint like velvet in my hands, I feel the snow falling softly against my face and I’m reminded of the great forces that exist in nature but cannot be seen. I think of Vivien McTavish, hearingless next door, and of myself sightless, and I’ve decided that the next time I see Conte, I must tell him that, far from decrying the silence, he must begin to listen to the messages all around him…

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