Follow the Silence

Jimmy Boomer Benjamin has arrived at the place he has dreaded and dreamed of for the past fifteen years: the town he grew up in. Nearing retirement and seeking closure to a novel that has plagued him for decades Jimmy is determined to break the long-held silence that muted two murders. One was rumoured to have been committed by his father. The other was a part of his own nightmarish past-and resulted in his excommunication from his community. <br /><br />Jimmy's journey begins and ends at Lighthouse Pier on the bleak and beautiful shores of Lake Erie where memories visions shadows love and violence converge and break-for better or worse. Encouraged and directed by his novel his opus of truth his testament to fiction Jimmy gives himself permission to come home.<br /><br />Follow the Silence is a disturbing portrait of racism and homophobia in small-town Ontario a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one man's reckoning with his past. Timely moving and populated by a cast of unforgettable characters Follow the Silence shows readers the remarkable power of truth.