Unsaid

In this USA Today bestselling debut novel Neil Abramson explores the beauty and redemptive power of human-animal relationships and the true meaning of communication in all of its diverse forms.
As a veterinarian Helena was required to choose when to end the lives of the terminally ill animals in her care. Now that she has died she is afraid to face them and finally admit to herself that her thirty-seven years of life were meaningless error-ridden and forgettable. So Helena lingers a silent observer haunted by the life she left behind-her shattered attorney husband David; her houseful of damaged but beloved animals; and her final project Cindy a chimpanzee trained to use sign language who may be able to unlock the mysteries of animal communication and consciousness.
When Cindy is scheduled for a research experiment that will undoubtedly take her life David must call upon everything he has learned from Helena to save her. In the explosive courtroom drama that follows all the threads of Helena's life entwine and tear as Helena and David confront their mistakes grief and loss and discover what it really means to be human.
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