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A review by cait_s
Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber
3.0
A story of a woman who overused her voice, until the pain drove her to silence, and her struggles to make a living, heal, deal with doctors, and still communicate with friends and family.
The style is rough and emotional, evocative, but sometimes unreadable. Does it capture the feeling of being silenced? Yes. But I couldn't quite tell what was going on in the most chaotic places, where the writing overlaps the images, scribbled and frenetic.
And the story doesn't quite feel complete. There's a start of a sense of understanding of her particular relation to her voice, and to being voiceless, but just the start.
The style is rough and emotional, evocative, but sometimes unreadable. Does it capture the feeling of being silenced? Yes. But I couldn't quite tell what was going on in the most chaotic places, where the writing overlaps the images, scribbled and frenetic.
And the story doesn't quite feel complete. There's a start of a sense of understanding of her particular relation to her voice, and to being voiceless, but just the start.