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The Weight of Silence (Paperback)

By: Heather Gudenkauf (Author)


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Heather Gudenkauf spins a chilling family drama about how abuse can be a disease with many hidden symptoms. The tiny town of Willow Creek, Iowa is stunned when two little girls, Calli Clark and Petra Gregory, suddenly vanish on the same summer night. Calli had not spoken a word in more than three years after a traumatic episode involving her abusive father, and now her mother, Antonia, begins to feel the crush of guilt for having decided to forgive her husband instead of taking Calli away. Petra was Calli's best friend and the interpreter of her recent silence, and once the secrets of the Clark family's dark past begin to seep out during the investigation, Petra's father finds himself assigning guilt and surrendering to an urge for justice at all costs. In her first novel, Gudenkauf crafts a masterful portrait of the dangerous gaps in communication which often exist between an individual, a family, and a community.

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.



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