‘What the Dead Know’By Barbara Butcherc.2023, Simon & Schuster$28.99/288 pages Dead men don’t tell tales.
Their voices are forever silenced, their fingers will never point to what happened to them or why. Their eyes will never widen in fear or anticipation, or glance in the direction of the guilty.
Dead men don’t tell tales but, as in the new book “What the Dead Know” by Barbara Butcher, they leave clues that can speak volumes.
Throughout most of her teen years, Barbara Butcher says she was miserable. She suffered from depression and anxiety, the fact that she was a lesbian was dawning, and she felt awkward.