The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

  • Author: Rita Leganski
  • Narrator: Maggi-Meg Reed
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 11:23:51
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Synopsis

Conceived in love and possibility, Bonaventure Arrow didn’t make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. No one knows that Bonaventure’s silence is filled with resonance—a miraculous gift of rarefied hearing that encompasses the Universe of Every Single Sound. Growing up in the big house on Christopher Street in Bayou Cymbaline, Bonaventure can hear flowers grow, a thousand shades of blue, and the miniature tempests that rage inside raindrops. He can also hear the gentle voice of his father, William Arrow, shot dead before Bonaventure was born by a mysterious stranger known only as the Wanderer.

Bonaventure’s remarkable gift of listening promises salvation to the souls who love him: his beautiful young mother, Dancy, haunted by the death of her husband; his Grand-mère Letice, plagued by grief and a long-buried guilt she locks away in a chapel; and his father, William, whose roaming spirit must fix the wreckage of the past. With the help of Trinidad Prefontaine, a Creole housekeeper endowed with her own special gifts, Bonaventure will find the key to long-buried mysteries and soothe a chorus of family secrets clamoring to be healed.

Chapters

  • 001 The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

    Duration: 37s
  • 002 Gifted

    Duration: 12min
  • 003 The Time She Simply Thought of..

    Duration: 14min
  • 004 This Turn of Events

    Duration: 04min
  • 005 The Wanderer, As Yet Unknown

    Duration: 03min
  • 006 The Newlyweds

    Duration: 10min
  • 007 The Voices Were Very Encouraging

    Duration: 09min
  • 008 Left, Right, Closer, Closer

    Duration: 14min
  • 009 A Privilege Allowed Restless Souls

    Duration: 07min
  • 010 As If to Keep From Breaking

    Duration: 13min
  • 011 From Whence She'd Come

    Duration: 12min
  • 012 The Other Grandma

    Duration: 16min
  • 013 Arrival

    Duration: 18min
  • 014 The Meaning of a Name

    Duration: 05min
  • 015 Mardi Gras Sentimental

    Duration: 10min
  • 016 Sacrament

    Duration: 12min
  • 017 A Voiceless Baby..

    Duration: 12min
  • 018 Time Went On with No New Findings

    Duration: 07min
  • 019 Taking Up the Prophecy

    Duration: 14min
  • 020 An Eloquence of Face and Hands

    Duration: 09min
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