From the author of THE PUSH, a pageturner about four suburban families
whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens--and what is lost
when good people make unconscionable choices
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.
