Rainy Day Reads

I picked this one up because Jean on BookishThoughts on Youtube raved about it and I thought it sounded interesting.  It is about a man who is fascinated by language and the soul. Growing up he has a very close relationship with his mother, while his father mostly seems to be in the way of the two of them. Together the two go looking for dead animals in the woods, because for some reason the mother wants the son to see what things look like dead. This sort of sets the tone for the entire book, where all the son’s relationships and thoughts and deeds are just a bit off. Well, more than a bit.  When he was a child his mother would also tell him a story about children raised in complete silence in order to see if they would speak an “original” language, a language of the soul, so to speak, and he becomes fascinated with this thought. A chain of events leads to him meeting a young woman and having children with her, and he sees this as an opportunity to conduct ...