The Stone Gods Did Not Make A Sound

About the Book

Davis, Harold, Richard, and Genesis are four college friends who can’t see a problem with partying for the rest of their lives.  After graduation, each goes his separate way, colliding with the realization that college was the place that they wanted to remain forever.  Each settles into a life of domestic anxiety as life moves them farther apart from each other until an unfortunate murder reunites them and they come to some realizations about their friendship as it was.

Harold is privy to the murder of a young woman and takes life on the lam as he tries to evade capture.  Enter Davis and Richard who realize that not only is nobody looking for Harold but also that nobody misses him, either.  The pair then set out on a quest to find their friend and bring him home and it looks as if they will be successful until Genesis enters the picture again.

Set in Bloomington, Indiana, “The Stone Gods Did Not Make A Sound” is Silence Whittaker’s third book, although it was his first finished project.  An examination of friendship modeled in absurdity, the story takes the reader to voluntary drug testing facilities, to local bars and Waffle Houses, goosesteps along the Seine and around the Parthenon with the Ugly Americans – the musical ambassadors to Europe, and lands in Tijuana, Mexico in a delightful romp through early adulthood and its heartaches not of learning who you are, but of who you will never be.

About the Author

Silence X. Whittaker teaches emotionally disturbed children in Turlock, California. He lives in Atwater, California with his wife, Dawn, and his three children, three cats, and two dogs. Winner of several awards for short fiction, including one at the Indiana University Writers’ Conference in 1992, this is his first published book.