![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though he tries to ignore them, the voices grow steadily more clamorous and intrusive, and Benny finds himself doing everything he can to block them out. 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. A luminous, inventive novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time BeingĪfter the tragic death of his beloved musician father, Kenji, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. ![]()
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