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Atlantic Monthly Press
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
560 pages
ISBN: 0871139634
EAN: 9780871139634
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Non-Fiction
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 hunger; Gaelan,
the son, is a telegenic weatherman who devotes his life to
predicting the unpredictable; and the youngest, Bonnie, is
a self-proclaimed archivist who combs roadsides for clues
to her mother’s legacy, and permission to move on. When
they’re summoned home after their father’s death, each
sibling is forced to revisit the childhood tragedy that
has defined their lives. With breathtaking lyricism,
wisdom, and humor, Kallos explores the consequences of
protecting those we love. Sing Them Home is a magnificent
tapestry of lives connected and undone by tragedy, lives
poised—unbeknownst to the characters—for redemption.
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