Everything you need to understand or teach If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor.
In Jon McGregor's novel If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, three years after the narrator witness a little boy on a bike get hit by a car, she is still thinking about the accident. Although she remembers many details of the day, she obsessively revisits the memory in search of some new truth or revelation. Her recent discovery that she is pregnant is also troubling her mind and complicating her ability to engage in the present. When she unexpectedly meets the brother of one of her old neighbors from the street where the accident took place, the narrator's sense of truth, beauty, and possibility begins to evolve. The novel explores themes including loneliness and longing, guilt and shame, and the past.
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