Blind Tongues

For Merelene Durham its been fifteen years of coping, of determination not to lose her purchase on this world: a world that has become almost unendurable since her rakish husband, Mayfield, fled after encephalitis turned their son Rolands mind into a strange, shell-holed country. Blind Tongues is the story of what happens when Mayfield unexpectedly returns, and his conviction that a newly made fortune can make Roland whole again, of a brilliant local attorney whose body bears the scars of aviation heroics in World War II, and finally of Merelene herself, who must choose between these two competitors in love while trying to accept the sweet simplicity of her ageless son. Sterling Watson, author of The Calling and Fighting in the Shade, has created a stunning evocation of a Florida coast town and of the people struggling for love and solace within its borders. The Saint Petersburg Times said that …Blind Tongues is a novel that merits, and repays, quiet absorption and careful reflection and called it unique and often deeply moving. And, The Washington Post said …the poetry of Sterling Watson's prose and the depth of his attention to human connectedness keep you reading Blind Tongues.