Speechless
Publisher: World Editions LLC
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781642860061
Subjects: Fiction, biographical
Description: Flamboyant, proud and dominant, Jose e is unrecognizable after suffering a stroke, which strips her of the ability to speak and express herself with the expansiveness for which she was known. With style and grace, Lanoye weaves together autobiography, testimony and fiction to recount the last years of his mother's life and the years before her stroke. Harnessing his power as a playwright and dexterity as a poet, Lanoye employs rich prose to paint a colorful picture of growing up and coming to terms with his homosexuality.