The weight of silence
About this book
Brought on by a tragedy experienced as a toddler, Calli Clark, suffers from selective mutism. Her mother Antonia tries her best to help, but is confined by marriage to a violent husband. Petra Gregory is Calli's best friend and her voice. But neither Petra of Calli have been heard from since their disappearance was discovered.
Subjects
- dysfunctional families
- family secrets
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, suspense
- fiction, thrillers, suspense
- iowa, fiction
- large type books
- literature
- missing children
- missing persons, fiction
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-08-16
- relationship novel
- romance