The House of Second Voices - Couverture souple

Curd Sr., David Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798199292542

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Marie Armand has spent twenty years translating the unspeakable — war crimes, atrocities, the worst things one human being can do to another. She knows how to carry other people's words without breaking under them.

She is not prepared for her father's house.

When Marie returns to rural Louisiana to care for Lionel, whose illness has begun stealing his speech, she expects duty, resentment, and decline. What she finds is a house that has been listening. A door that moves. A tap that runs dry. A word that appears where no one wrote it.

Then Lionel says something he should not be able to say.

Then the house begins answering.

Marie's gift for language — the very skill that built her career — becomes the thing the house uses against her. It does not scream. It does not show itself. It waits in silence, in water, in unfinished sentences, learning exactly how she thinks.

It has been waiting for someone like her.

The House of Second Voices is a Southern Gothic novel about family silence, inherited grief, and the terrible cost of understanding what was meant to stay unsaid.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798199292542
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 353
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