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Looking back over eighteen years, a mother writes about her daughter Ruda, who wants short, plain messages and reads the world through bodies, faces and colours rather than words. The medical label is never named: a diagnosis appears as a passport that marks its holder and narrows where she may go. The mother moves beside her as guard, interpreter, go-between and finally witness, each trying to become a separate self. Long, digressive episodes of walks through the city, metro rides and the struggle over speech alternate with interludes listing the contradictory advice neighbours, doctors, carers and other parents gave her as a mother. Memories of a childhood beside her father's veterinary clinic colour her anger. The chapters move in loops of memory rather than in order.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

285 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2024 by Wydawnictwo Karakter

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9788368059151 (original)