‘Sleeping Giants’ is a propulsive thriller infused with thought-provoking themes.
“Sleeping Giants” is the latest novel by Rene Denfeld, an award-winning author and public defense investigator in Portland, OR. In the dramatic opening pages of Rene Denfeld’s new novel “Sleeping Giants,” a distraught boy, who has escaped from a nearby center for disturbed youths, runs headlong into the freezing surf off Oregon’s rough coast. Denfeld writes, “…the sea grabbed the boy and pulled him down under the surface, into a watery paradise of sparkling blue and rushing currents.
She’s also the adopted mother to three children from the foster system. The experiences of one of her children inspired the events of “Sleeping Giants,” specifically the use of a supposed therapeutic technique used on children with autism, and other diagnoses, called “holding time.” It’s a process of restraining that includes using blankets or rugs and lying on top of upset children in order to subdue them.
The complex villain of “Sleeping Giants” is a character called Martha King, who runs a center for disturbed children in the novel. As Denfeld explains in the book’s acknowledgments, “The character of Martha King represents many people I’ve met in my work who believe they are doing the right thing, even as they commit the worst harms.”
But this novel is not merely a descent into the worst of human cruelty; there is also a heartening, hopeful arc of the story, featuring empathetic main characters like retired cop Larry Palmer and Amanda Dufresne, a young woman who discovers that the boy who ran into the surf was her brother, and who goes on a mission to find out about his life.
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