THE OUTSIDE VOICEIn a family of secrets, the most dangerous one belongs to the four-year-old.
Blythe Daye doesn’t understand why she sometimes hears voices — strangers begging, pleading, screaming for their lives. She doesn’t understand why, when she hears them, her body stops being hers. She only knows that afterward, people get hurt. And that her parents will do anything to make sure no one finds out.
Told through four alternating perspectives — Blythe, her physicist father Johnny, her lawyer mother Chaaya, and their cat — The Outside Voice is a literary thriller about what a family will conceal, and what concealment costs.
Johnny is certain there’s a scientific explanation for what’s happening to his daughter. Chaaya is certain the explanation doesn’t matter as long as Blythe stays safe. Blythe is certain of only one thing: the voices are getting louder, and she is learning — slowly, painfully — to fight back.
When a methodical stranger begins circling their home, the family’s carefully maintained secrets begin to collapse inward. What follows is a single night that will cost them everything — and a reckoning that will take years to survive.
