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| Original Title: | The Weight of Silence |
| ISBN: | 077832740X (ISBN13: 9780778327400) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Iowa(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Barry Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original (2010), Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel by an American Author (2010), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009) |
Heather Gudenkauf
Paperback | Pages: 373 pages Rating: 3.93 | 39442 Users | 3915 Reviews
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It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn's shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night.Seven-year-old Calli Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler.
Calli's mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often angry husband. Now, though she denies that her husband could be involved in the possible abductions, she fears her decision to stay in her marriage has cost her more than her daughter's voice.
Petra Gregory is Calli's best friend, her soul mate and her voice. But neither Petra nor Calli has been heard from since their disappearance was discovered. Desperate to find his child, Martin Gregory is forced to confront a side of himself he did not know existed beneath his intellectual, professorial demeanor.
Now these families are tied by the question of what happened to their children. And the answer is trapped in the silence of unspoken family secrets.
Particularize About Books The Weight of Silence
| Title | : | The Weight of Silence |
| Author | : | Heather Gudenkauf |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 373 pages |
| Published | : | July 28th 2009 by Mira (first published August 1st 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller |
Rating About Books The Weight of Silence
Ratings: 3.93 From 39442 Users | 3915 ReviewsCriticism About Books The Weight of Silence
I thought I had read all of heathers books! Not sure how I missed this one! I literally could not put this down! The story the short quick chapters wanting to know what happened next! All of the above make for a great book! And didnt see that coming!I have mixed feelings about this book I liked it and I didnt like it. I felt the beginning was great but then began to get weighed down with way too many words and too many details and then seemed a long time in getting to the end. After all that, we never did find out why one girl was even taken!At four years of age little Callie stopped talking due to something her father said to her on one particular day but no one knows about this other than Callie herself. Callies mother Antonia is
What a great story full of secrets and who-did-it suspense! Keeps you guessing and interested throughout the entire book.As two seven year old girls are found missing from their beds, Calli a selective mute and Petra her best friend, the search begins in the woods near their home with Calli's father, a mean drunk who is supposedly away on a fishing trip a likely suspect. The story is told from each character's perspective, Ben, Calli's brother, the girl's parents and Assistant Sheriff Louis,
An absolutely amazing novel! I found it very hard to put this novel down. This is one of those books, were you're desperate to get to the end, to find out the outcome, but at the same time, you don't want the novel to end. Heather Gudenkauf writes from the perspective of each character, and her descriptions of the violence and the fear that surround Calli and Ben are both breathtaking and heart-wrenching.
I would give this one 3.5 stars. 2 young girls go missing one early morning and this book follows the day from many different character perspectives. Each chapter changes to another person and their take on what is going on. The way that the novel was laid out held my attention and made it really easy to keep reading right through it. I couldn't wait to see what happened in the end. I loved how when one chapter ended, the next chapter picked up right where the last one left off, without leaving
This one had 4 stars until the end, which totally ruined it. There were some good moments, but all things considered, this reads like it was the author's first book and she has some growing to do.One thing I liked was that, though the author toys with the oh-so-trendy multiple narrator/first person writing in each chapter, the chapters from Calli, a select mute's, perspective were in third person past tense. An interesting choice which bodes well for future writing, but it didn't really play
This was a fast-paced thriller told in many different voices. It's not high brow literally but it's gripping and I read it in one sitting
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