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010 _a 2022051777
040 _aDLC
_beng
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020 _a9781984881694
_q(hardcover)
020 _a1984881698
_q(hardcover)
020 _z9781984881700
_q(ebook)
020 _a9780593655733
_q(international edition)
020 _a0593655737
_q(international edition)
035 _a(OCoLC)1349224157
042 _apcc
092 _aAUDRAIN,
_bASHLEY
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aAudrain, Ashley,
_d1982-
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe whispers /
_cAshley Audrain.
250 _aFirst United States edition.
264 1 _a[New York] :
_bPamela Dorman Books/Viking,
_c[2023]
264 4 _c©2023
300 _a326 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling to start a family of their own; and the quiet, elderly Portuguese couple who care for their adult son with a developmental disability, and who pass the long days on the front porch, watching their neighbors go about their busy lives. The story spins out over the course of one week, in the alternating voices of the women in each family as they are forced to face the secrets within the walls of their own homes, and the uncomfortable truths that connect them all to one another. Set against the heartwrenching drama of what will happen to Xavier, who hangs between death and life, or a life changed forever, THE WHISPERS is a novel about what happens when we put our needs ahead of our children's. Exploring the quiet sacrifices of motherhood, the intuitions that we silence, the complexities of our closest friendships, and the danger of envy, this is a novel about the reverberations of life's most difficult decisions." --
_cPublisher.
650 0 _aCouples
_vFiction.
_93982
650 0 _aFamilies
_vFiction.
_93570
650 0 _aSummer
_vFiction.
_952268
650 0 _aNeighbors
_vFiction.
_945286
650 0 _aNeighborhoods
_vFiction.
_958390
650 0 _aMotherhood
_vFiction.
_973201
650 0 _aFalls (Accidents)
_vFiction.
_9260641
650 0 _aFamily secrets
_vFiction.
_989597
655 7 _aThrillers (Fiction)
_2lcgft
_9465
655 7 _aDomestic fiction.
_2lcgft
_93574
994 _aC0
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