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Silence Speaks in Egana Djabbarova’s “My Dreadful Body,” Translated from Russian by Lisa C. Hayden
Born to an Azerbaijani family in Russia in the early 1990s, Egana Djabbarova grew up in a conservative diaspora that scrutinized every bit of her body. In her memoir, “My Dreadful Body,” translated by Lisa C. Hayden, she explores different parts of herself with the ruthlessness of a physician and the care of a poet.