After the death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to things in his house - a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Soon the voices follow him outside the house, driving him to seek refuge in a large public library, where objects know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world, where 'things happen'. A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and our relationship with things.

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of four novels including The Book of Form and Emptiness, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction, and A Tale for the Time Being, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages. Ozeki has also written a short memoir, Timecode of a Face. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she teaches creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities.

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