The Silence in Her Eyes, Armando Lucas Correa
The Silence in Her Eyes, Armando Lucas Correa
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The Silence in Her Eyes

Author: Armando Lucas Correa

Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young

Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/16/2024


Synopsis

In the vein of Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware, a bold and suspenseful psychological thriller about a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered—from the author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl.

Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn’t been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she’s blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice.

She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond her longtime housekeeper, her doctor, and her elderly neighbor. That all changes when Alice moves into the apartment next door and Leah can immediately smell the anxiety wafting off her. Worse, Leah can’t help but hear Alice and a late-night visitor engage in a violent fight. Worried, she befriends her neighbor and discovers that Alice is in the middle of a messy divorce from an abusive husband.

Then one night, Leah wakes up to someone in her apartment. She blacks out and in the morning is left wondering if she dreamt the episode. And yet the scent of the intruder follows her everywhere. And when she hears Alice through the wall pleading for her help, Leah makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength, and ultimately her sanity.

About Armando Lucas Correa

Armando Lucas Correa is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and the recipient of several awards from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and the Society of Professional Journalism. He is the author of the international bestseller The German Girl, which is now being published in seventeen languages and has sold more than one million copies; The Daughter’s Tale; and The Night Traveler, for which he was awarded the Cintas Foundation Creative Writing Fellowship. He lives in New York City with his husband and their three children. Visit ArmandoLucasCorrea.com.    


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shelley's Book Nook on November 22, 2023

My Reviews Can Also Be Found On: The Storygraph and The Book Review Crew Blog 3.5 Stars I love Armando Lucas Correa's writing his historical fiction has always been a favourite of mine so when this popped up on NetGalley of course I had to read it right away. This was a very slow burn of a story and w......more

Goodreads review by Linzie (suspenseisthrillingme) on January 30, 2025

When I first read the synopsis for The Silence in Her Eyes, I was instantly captivated by both the protagonist and the premise. After all, the idea of a character who can’t see movement was like catnip to this suspense lover. Once I actually began to read, I was subsumed by the original narrative st......more

Goodreads review by NILTON on February 11, 2024

Goodness… what a disappointment! Great premises. I have never heard of akinetopsia before. It’s a neuropsychological disorder known as motion blindness. For such topic I was expecting a groundbreaking work. Unfortunately the writing was very weak and the development of the story wasn’t very thrilling. Th......more

Goodreads review by Maren’s Reads on January 16, 2024

Leah has been living with a rare neurological condition, akinetopsia, since she was a child. Known to cause motion blindness, it leaves Leah reliant upon her other senses. With the help of her doctor, neighbor and housekeeper, Leah lives a seemingly normal life. But when new neighbor Alice moves in,......more

Goodreads review by Jeanie ~ MyFairytaleLibrary on August 24, 2023

As the result of a head injury when she was eight years old, Leah has akinetopsia or motion blindness. Although doctors felt it may not be permanent, Leah is now 28 and has had no improvement. Her mother has recently passed away and she has a quiet life filled with books and a limited number of peop......more


Quotes

"Narrator Suehyla El-Attar Young gives an expressive and engaging performance, capturing the complex, often confusing way Leah experiences the world. Her delivery of the intricate narrative yields a riveting listening experience."