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aussiegirlinuk 's review for:
Suddenly Silent and Still
by Nin Mok
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Unflinchingly honest and profoundly moving.
In an instant, Nin Mok’s world shifts irreversibly—her hearing disappears, the ground spins beneath her, and everything she once knew as a project management executive, mother, and high-achiever begins to unravel. Suddenly Silent and Still is a searing memoir of trauma, grief, acceptance, and ultimately—healing.
But this isn’t simply a story about sudden hearing loss and vertigo. It’s a meditation on identity, control, disability, motherhood, and the quiet yet fierce determination to keep moving forward. Mok writes with raw vulnerability and quiet strength, charting her journey of becoming disabled and rebuilding her life within the confines—and freedoms—of a new reality.
Her words struck a deeply personal chord with me. Like Mok, I became suddenly and irreversibly disabled at 40. Not through hearing or balance loss, but through physical and invisible disability, coupled with chronic pain. I know that grief. I know the painful re-evaluation of self. I know the silent scream of “Why me?”—and the slow, often difficult shift to “Why not me?”
I rarely highlight passages in books (I’m not a monster!), but this one? I found myself highlighting so many (perhaps feeling freer to do so on Kindle!).
My favourite line? “Who you are is as vast as the ocean.”
Being disabled doesn’t make you less. Nor does loss, grief, or struggle. We are all vast and infinite, whether able-bodied or not. Mok doesn’t sugar-coat her experience with toxic positivity; she embraces the pain, the mess, the questions. And that honesty is what makes this memoir so powerful.
Suddenly Silent and Still is both grounded and uplifting. A must-read for anyone navigating life-altering change—or for anyone who loves someone who is.
In an instant, Nin Mok’s world shifts irreversibly—her hearing disappears, the ground spins beneath her, and everything she once knew as a project management executive, mother, and high-achiever begins to unravel. Suddenly Silent and Still is a searing memoir of trauma, grief, acceptance, and ultimately—healing.
But this isn’t simply a story about sudden hearing loss and vertigo. It’s a meditation on identity, control, disability, motherhood, and the quiet yet fierce determination to keep moving forward. Mok writes with raw vulnerability and quiet strength, charting her journey of becoming disabled and rebuilding her life within the confines—and freedoms—of a new reality.
Her words struck a deeply personal chord with me. Like Mok, I became suddenly and irreversibly disabled at 40. Not through hearing or balance loss, but through physical and invisible disability, coupled with chronic pain. I know that grief. I know the painful re-evaluation of self. I know the silent scream of “Why me?”—and the slow, often difficult shift to “Why not me?”
I rarely highlight passages in books (I’m not a monster!), but this one? I found myself highlighting so many (perhaps feeling freer to do so on Kindle!).
My favourite line? “Who you are is as vast as the ocean.”
Being disabled doesn’t make you less. Nor does loss, grief, or struggle. We are all vast and infinite, whether able-bodied or not. Mok doesn’t sugar-coat her experience with toxic positivity; she embraces the pain, the mess, the questions. And that honesty is what makes this memoir so powerful.
Suddenly Silent and Still is both grounded and uplifting. A must-read for anyone navigating life-altering change—or for anyone who loves someone who is.