The darkness that swallowed me

I am Layan... and this is my story with the darkness that swallowed me. It did not come suddenly, but sneaked in slowly, until I could no longer distinguish when the extinguishing began. In "the darkness that swallowed me," Amal Al Hilal shares a deep emotional and autobiographical narrative in the voice of "Layan," who lives among faces as if she is one of them, while inside her, silence collapses. These pages are not just diaries, but a journey into the heart of shadows, where what cannot be said is written, and every fear and every expanding emptiness is drawn. Layan describes her feeling as if she is watching a shadow that resembles her but is not her, deeply wondering: can the soul return from the edge of extinguishing? Or does the darkness, when it chooses its victim, never bring her back? This book is a sincere and intense search for light amid meaninglessness, an attempt to escape total blackness.