Silence and the Word

by Mary Anne Mohanraj

A new collection drawing from the many areas of Mary Anne Mohanraj's work, Silence and the Word includes everything from enticing erotica to Sri Lankan-American immigrant tales, from romantic poetry to provocative essays. Mohanraj boldly explores sexuality, ethnicity, and their interactions with the human heart. If you're a long-time fan, you'll be thrilled to have so much of her work finally collected in one place; if you're a new reader, prepare to be emotionally engaged, possibly aroused, and certainly fascinated by what you're about to read.

300 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 2004

About the author

Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.

Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org). She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.maryannemohanraj.com

Reviews

[Sreesha Divakaran · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lately all the books I pick up start off with so much promise and then, kind of... lose the spark along the way
Silence and the Word was ok. I loved Esthely Blue. Loved it. Some stories seemed problematic imo, but the author did mention in the Intro that some of work was written for the shock value (last time I heard an author admit to that was when Ottessa Moshfegh came out with one of her books a few years ago; I forget which) Overall, a rating of 3* seems generous.