The Silence We Eat is a poetic prose that is not subtle in its telling. Oyindamola Shoola has once again skillfully and effortlessly given a voice to the silent stories of many women, the stories of places we have walked and our bodies have survived, the trajectory of silence, and how it leads us home – finding our voices. She has shown us that oftentimes silence is deafening, detaching, choking, empty, and fading, but then, it becomes finding, rediscovering, healing, and wholeness. Oyindamola Shoola, with this one, has proved she is not about to stop being loud with her writings anytime soon. Overall, The Silence We Eat is a book I wouldn’t have had written in any other way. It’s a celebration of our body, strength, survival, and growth as women. For me, it says silence is how we learn to become loud, and loud is how we become free. Silence is how we transition to becoming.
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- Ebukun Gbemisola Ogunyemi