The Sound of Undoing

Winner of the 2024 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award  Winner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award  Winner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Academic Press Award  Shortlisted for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize  A memoir in essays, The Sound of Undoing deconstructs the way sound has overwhelmingly shaped Paige Towers’s life. Each essay focuses on a different sound, some perceptible—like the sound of a loon call or gunshot—and others abstract—like the sound of awakenin