I was almost thirteen when the bluebelly Yankee bastards invaded the Valley. I saw a lot that day They killed Poppa right off, and then they dragged Mother into the front yard before they killed her too. I figure that was the day I first got the knack of being invisible. From the critically acclaimed author of the Memory Cathedral comes a most powerful, haunting and unforgettable novel of the Civil War. Provocative, poetic, and disturbing, the Silent introduces us to a young narrator whose voice rivals any in literature in bringing poignantly to life the surreal horrors of battle and its spiritual cost to human survival. A ferocious portrait Dann captures the sheer bloody chaos of battle in the civil war A vivid and disturbing read. Kirkus Reviews