In The Tongue's Silent Search, Dean Sullivan dissects the intimate mechanics of forgetting—not as loss, but as a palpable shape in the mouth, a pressure behind the eyes, a hair trapped under paint. Through fragmented vignettes of dust motes, buzzing wasps, and the hum of a fridge, these essays map the body's betrayal by the brain, where words vanish like chalk in rain, leaving only echoes of sensation. A haunting meditation for readers of The Body Keeps the Score or Lydia Davis's micro-essays.