num_pages: 74
description: 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 grandmothers 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.
language: English
title: The Silence of the Wilting Skin
publisher: Pink Narcissus Press