The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow, (Paperback)

from BookConcierge

2.5**Before he is born, Bonaventure Arrow's father is murdered by a mentally disturbed man known only as "the Wanderer." His mother's unspeakable grief affects Bonaventure's development - he is born mute, but with hyper-acute hearing. He can hear earthworms moving through the dirt and a bit of du...

from ToniFGMAMTC

This is a really neat story, kind of an adult fairy tale, life lessons type book. I like how the good and bad of people, life, religions, societies, social classes are shown. The main point in my opinion is acceptance, forgiveness and facing the truth.Bonaventure would come to know that life is n...

from revslick

Here's the quintessential sultry, Southern novel of the summer with a dash of supernatural. Bonaventure Arrow is born silent and in the South with lots of family trauma all around him. His silence speaks volumes to the way we keep our skeletons deep in the closet and our trauma roam around like f...

from LibraryCin

Bonaventure Arrow never made a sound from the time he was born. It was the 1950s and his mother Dancy gave birth to him only after her new husband was murdered. They moved in with her mother-in-law, as Dancy didn't really get along with her own mother, and they both tried to come to grips with Wi...

from Cecilturtle

There is something absolutely spellbinding in this book. The words flow like music and wrap the reader in a world made of laughs, love, tears, death and poetry, a touch of magic that never becomes silly or overpowering but which captures the imagination and reminds us of all the wonder in the wor...