The Book of Form and Emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki · 2021
Literary Fiction · ranked #231 in category
Winner · The Women's Prize for Fiction, 2022
After his father's death, thirteen-year-old Benny begins hearing voices from objects around him — and finds refuge in the public library, where a mysterious book seems to be narrating his own life. Ozeki's Women's Prize-winning novel is about grief, mental health, consumerism and the objects that accumulate around loss.
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