So Loud a Silence is a 1996 young adult novel by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins. It is about a teenager, Juan Guillermo, who leaves Bogotá to live with his grandmother on a farm in the Colombian countryside.
Kirkus Reviews wrote "A moiled, disappointingly passionless view of a people burdened by grief and fear after years of unchecked violence." while Publishers Weekly described it as "An intimate coming-of-age story, against a backdrop of terrorism and loss."
So Loud a Silence has also been reviewed by ALAN Review, Booklist, School Library Journal. The Horn Book Magazine Book Report, and Multicultural Review.
It is a 1996 CCBC Choices book, and a 1996 Américas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature honor book.