Chalk

A Physicist, a Child, and a Restless DeadBy Fiona Mapleton
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Length40m

About this audiobook

When physicist Rachel discovers her five-year-old daughter drawing impossibly accurate nuclear-era equations in sidewalk chalk, she reaches for the only tools she trusts: documentation, research, and reason. But the deeper she investigates, the clearer it becomes that this is no childhood trick and no clinical mystery. The diagrams belong to Lev Kaplan, a forgotten Manhattan Project physicist who tried to stop a catastrophe and spent the rest of his life carrying the weight of being ignored. As Rachel follows the trail of chalk marks, sleep-talking, and buried history, she is forced to confront a truth science cannot measure: some spirits do not return for vengeance, but for witness, absolution, and the chance to finally lay down their grief. Quietly devastating and deeply original, Chalk is a haunting literary paranormal story about memory, guilt, motherhood, and the dead who remain until someone finally understands what they were trying to say.

Audiobook details

GenreHorror
Length40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish

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