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The Silence of the Wilting Skin | Tlotlo Tsamaase

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In an African city, a nameless young woman living in the wards slowly begins to lose her identity: her skin color is peeling off, people are becoming invisible, and the city plans to destroy the train where they bury their dead. After the narrator is given a warning by her grandmother's dreamskin, things begin to fall apart. Struggling to hold onto a fluctuating reality, she prescribes herself insomnia in a desperate attempt to save her family.

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The Silence of the Wilting Skin | Tlotlo Tsamaase

so-so

It's a surreal novella set in a segregated city where White and Black districts are separated by railroad tracks for a train carrying ghosts. Black homes and citizens are targeted for erasure. The narrator finds she is losing her skin color and language and eventually her home. Others disappear altogether. Powerful stuff, but it's rarely clear just what is happening, nor what is a dream. I admire parts of it, but it is not an easy read.

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