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All four Bird children have an idyllic childhood. But one Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family that is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear them apart. The years pass and the children become adults and begin to develop their own quite separate lives. Soon it's almost as though they've never been a family at all. But then something happens that will call them home, back to the house they grew up in - and to what...
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After the tragic death his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house - a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house. Then he meets his very own Book - a talking thing - who narrates...
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