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Also by Heather Gudenkauf:

Everyone Is Watching, April 2024
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Everyone Is Watching, April 2024
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Missing Pieces, May 2023
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The Overnight Guest, February 2022
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This Is How I Lied, June 2021
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This Is How I Lied, May 2020
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Before She Was Found, April 2019
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Not a Sound, June 2017
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Missing Pieces, July 2016
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The Weight of Silence, February 2016
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Missing Pieces, February 2016
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Little Mercies, July 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Little Lies, May 2014
e-Book
One Breath Away, July 2012
Paperback / e-Book
These Things Hidden, February 2011
Trade Size / e-Book
The Weight of Silence, August 2009
Paperback

The Weight of Silence
Heather Gudenkauf

MIRA
August 2009
On Sale: August 1, 2009
Featuring: Antonia Clark; Martin Gregory
384 pages
ISBN: 077832740X
EAN: 9780778327400
Paperback
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Women's Fiction

It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn's shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night.

Seven-year-old Calli Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by a tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler. Calli's mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often angry husband. Now, though she denies that her husband could be involved in the possible abductions, she fears her decision to stay in her marriage has cost her more than her daughter's voice.

Petra Gregory is Calli's best friend, her soul mate and her voice. But neither Petra nor Calli has been heard from since their disappearance was discovered. Desperate to find his child, Martin Gregory is forced to confront a side of himself he did not know existed beneath his intellectual, professorial demeanor.

Now these families are tied by the question of what happened to their children. And the answer is trapped in the silence of unspoken family secrets.

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