02084cam a2200385 i 4500 325815 MeVbMML 20250410105237.0 221027t20232023nyu 000 1 eng 2022051777 9781984881694 UtOrBLW AJM pcc PR9199.4.A9244 W55 2023 Audrain, Ashley, 1982- author. 19702 The Whispers : a Novel / Ashley Audrain. First. [New York] : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2023] ℗♭2023 326 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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." -- Publisher. Couples Fiction. 17346 Families Fiction. 5980 Summer Fiction. 13652 Neighborhoods Fiction. 5941 Falls (Accidents) Fiction. 19703 Family secrets Fiction. 657 Thrillers (Fiction) lcgft 486 Domestic fiction. lcgft 61 .b1286156x ddc BOOK 30543 30543 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2025-04-10 28.00 0 AUDR 40276 2025-04-10 2025-04-10 BOOK 1