
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. One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices.



A boy who hears the voices of objects all around him a mother drowning in her possessions and a Book that might hold the secret to saving them both–the brilliantly inventive new novel from the Booker Prize-finalist Ruth Ozeki
