Go to Sleep, My Darling

Bertrand Baxter has always known how to be a man: strong, silent, in control. But living in a house of five women, his wife Rolanda and their four daughters, he feels like a stranger in his own home. The emotional currents that hum between the women in his family might as well be a foreign language. Then his infant daughter Annie reaches out to him in an entirely new way: telepathically. Through her mind, Bertrand finally begins to feel what he's spent a lifetime refusing to acknowledge. The novel, published in 1958, was remarkably ahead of its time, a science fiction story that usesESP not for space battles or Cold War paranoia, but for the radical act of asking men to listen. It's a quiet, often moving examination of what it costs a person to refuse empathy, and how connection can arrive through the smallest voice.