![]() ![]() Later he’ll be addressed by limp lettuce and sad Christmas baubles. Within days of the accident, Benji begins hearing the voices of inanimate objects. And the novel’s twelve-year-old hero, Benji, also hears disembodied voices, which begin breaking into his thoughts shortly after his father is killed in a ridiculous collision with a truck full of live chickens. Ozeki’s fifth book, The Book of Form and Emptiness, is dedicated “to my dad, whose voice still guides me”. It’s not something I necessarily believe in, but if I’d been raised in another culture then perhaps I wouldn’t have questioned the idea.” But in that flash of a moment, it felt like he was there. I would look around and, of course he wouldn’t be there. She knew who it was because “he had a very distinctive way of clearing his throat. In the year after Ruth Ozeki’s father died, she heard him call her name “softly, just behind my right ear, about five or six times.” It was something that happened while she was quite relaxed: in the bath, washing dishes or folding laundry. ![]()
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