![]() ![]() Her flaws are written large, but, like literature’s best flaws, her hoarding is a perversion of her greatest strength. ![]() Like the characters in her earlier work, the characters here are believable and human Annabelle in particular is lovely, lonely, and strikingly real. The Book of Form and Emptiness is Ruth Ozeki’s first novel since the 2013 publication of her prize-winning A Tale for the Time Being. The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki (Viking, Canongate, September 2021) It is surely never comfortable to live with someone who hoards, but Benny’s situation is complicated: he can hear the voices of material objects.īenny can also hear the narrative voice of the novel itself as it tells his story. As a few years pass, Annabelle lets their home fill with the clutter of things she thinks will fill the emptiness her husband left behind. His mother, Annabelle, too, struggles with her grief. Teenager Benny Oh has just lost his father, a Japanese-American jazz clarinetist. ![]()
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