Hearing Voices From 'The Book of Form and Emptiness'
NPR's Book of the Day · NPR
October 7, 20218m 52s
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If these walls could talk... what might they say to the chairs? In Ruth Ozeki's novel The Book of Form and Emptiness, 13-year-old Benny Oh starts hearing things talk to him after the loss of his father. As he navigates his grief, it's his conversations with books that guide him through.
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