![]() ![]() He meets and falls in love with a nineteen year-old freegan installation artist named 'The Aleph,' who introduces him to the 'Bottleman,' an older, homeless, Slovenian poet in a wheelchair who also hears voices. Benny escapes to the public library whenever he can, and slowly a strange new world opens up to him as he gets to know its denizens. ![]() People begin to think he is mentally ill. When he can't escape the voices, he starts to talk back to them. The first voices Benny hears belong to the things in Annabelle's growing hoard, but soon he is hearing voices not just at home, but on the street and at school. Benny's voice-hearing is heightened because his depressed and lonely mother, Anabelle, is a hoarder. He doesn't understand what they are saying, but he can sense their emotional tone many are angry and full of pain. ![]() ![]() The voices belong to all the things around him, speaking. Benny Oh is a fourteen year-old boy living in the Pacific Northwest who, shortly after his father dies, begins to hear voices. "A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and learning to take charge of one's life, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. ![]()
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