hardcover, 512 pages
English language
Published Sept. 20, 2021 by Viking.
After the tragic death of his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house--a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. 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. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous.
A long many-voiced dialog on trauma and mental illness - perhaps society's role in mental illness, perhaps the basic human condition. Too much to go on, it fizzled for me.
