The voices too many women have lost; the dreams too many men have destroyed

A megaphone is not enough to make yourself heard if you have been at the bottom of a pit where no one can find you for the past six months. You can’t shout that you are right there behind your house, or that it was your husband who threw you there.

Words are not enough if you are forced to clean the deck of an oil tanker for a few euros a month, having to deal with beatings and rape attempts, until one day, in order to keep from going crazy, you choose to become a “ray of light,” hanging yourself from a crystal chandelier.

In these stories, women who were victims of murder regain their voices to tell their truths. Serena Dandini reveals an exceptional capacity for creating nuanced emotion, from comic to painful, from grotesque to dramatic. With a factual basis and cinematic flair, these works compel the reader to consider the violence that is taking place right now all over the world.

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Serena Dandini is a well-known Italian screenwriter and television host. Sisters Don’t Sleep is the third book she has published with Rizzoli.