The Book of Form and Emptiness

Annabelle and her son Benny have a lot to deal with, emotionally and otherwise. Her hold on her job is tenuous while her accumulating piles of stuff have a choking grip on their household; he's suffering the usual teenage indignities, compounded by voices in his head that definitely aren't normal; and they're both suffering the loss of Kenji, the easygoing husband and father who used to glue the cracks in their small family together. Author Ozeki lets each of them tell their own tale, binding them back together in heartwarming fashion with a wonderfully accessible metafictional conceit: allowing her book to speak for itself." —James [from the Madison Books newsletter]