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Original Title: The Weight of Silence
ISBN: 077832740X (ISBN13: 9780778327400)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Iowa(United States)
Literary Awards: Barry Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original (2010), Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel by an American Author (2010), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009)
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The Weight of Silence Paperback | Pages: 373 pages
Rating: 3.93 | 39442 Users | 3915 Reviews

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Title:The Weight of Silence
Author:Heather Gudenkauf
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 373 pages
Published:July 28th 2009 by Mira (first published August 1st 2008)
Categories:Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller

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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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Ratings: 3.93 From 39442 Users | 3915 Reviews

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For the most part this was an enjoyable read. Just a couple of things bugged me.The first was the multiple narrators. The chapters all read the same to me. If I got interrupted I often had to scroll back to the beginning of the chapter to find out who's pov it was.The side story of Petra felt like an after thought. And the ending. Everything was tied up a just little to neatly and left me feeling flat.

This was a hard and heavy read. Two girls, best friends, go missing one day in the middle of the woods at 4:30 AM. The little town is frenzied by their dissapperance. The author does well at developing the characters. She makes sure that you love some characters and hate others. Intially, I was disappointed because I thought I had predicted the ending but I was so very wrong. It took a completely different turn toward the end. There were some moments, however, that I thought the author went into

I have mixed feelings about this book I liked it and I didnt like it. I felt the beginning was great but then began to get weighed down with way too many words and too many details and then seemed a long time in getting to the end. After all that, we never did find out why one girl was even taken!At four years of age little Callie stopped talking due to something her father said to her on one particular day but no one knows about this other than Callie herself. Callies mother Antonia is

I have mixed feelings about this book I liked it and I didnt like it. I felt the beginning was great but then began to get weighed down with way too many words and too many details and then seemed a long time in getting to the end. After all that, we never did find out why one girl was even taken!At four years of age little Callie stopped talking due to something her father said to her on one particular day but no one knows about this other than Callie herself. Callies mother Antonia is

I wanted to like this book. I really did. It looked very fascinating on the Barnes and Noble top reads table and I waited for 3 months on a 200 person list to get it from the library. But this book was nothing special, and was undeserving of all the hype, in my opinion.The basic plotline has been touched on already...two young girls, (one of who is a selective mute, for reasons unknown to anyone) neighbors and best friends, each go missing one morning and their families and the town sheriff go

I tore through this book over two days...the author does a fantastic job with building suspense around the search for two missing little girls.

Wow! The Weight of Silence is a dandy of a story! Heather Gudenkauf is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!Seven year old Calli Clark doesn't talk. The doctor's say there's nothing physically wrong with her. One day when she was four she suddenly stopped talking. What could have happened to stop a happy, talkative child from uttering another word for three years? Petra Gregory lives next door and is not just Calli's best friend she's also Calli's voice. Then one summer morning the