When his mother develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. Although Benny doesn’t understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. The voices belong to the things in his house – a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Īfter the tragic death of his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it. TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK AT THE LOCAL PUBLISHER – STOCK DUE MID AUGUSTĪmerican-Canadian author Ruth Ozeki has won the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction with her fourth novel The Book of Form and Emptiness (June 2022)
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |