National best seller and Today show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect. Stephanie Kallos's debut novel is a work of infinite charm, wit and heart. It is also a glorious homage to the beauty of broken things. When we meet septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, she is living alone in a mansion in Seattle with only a massive collection of valuable antiques for company. Enter Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart who has come west to search for her wayward boyfriend. Both...
National best seller and Today show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are ...
"Sing Them Home" is a moving portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother s disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician s wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope s three young children, the stability of life with their preoccupied father, and with Viney, their mother s spitfire best friend, is no match for Hope s absence. Larken, the eldest, is now an art history professor who seeks in food an answer to a less tangible...
"Sing Them Home" is a moving portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother s disappearance when they ...
"I love Ms. Kallos's work so much." --Anne Lamott, best-selling author of Grace (Eventually)
"For me, it would be plenty if a novel was deeply felt, utterly absorbing, and full of wit. But in Language Arts, Stephanie Kallos goes further, throwing in a doozy of a twist that had me going back to page one to understand how she pulled off such dazzling sleight of hand. An all-around delight." --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But...
"I love Ms. Kallos's work so much." --Anne Lamott, best-selling author of Grace (Eventually)