Sing Them Home - Hardcover

"A powerful story of loss, hope, faith, redemption, and love. I fell in love with Kallos's writing all over again." -- Patti Morrison "Sing Them Home has a wonderful modern fairy tale feel to it. . . . I don't like to compare books with other books . . . but The Lovely Bones and The Secret Life of Bees do come to mind." -- Leslie Reiner "A new masterfully crafted family saga. I thought about the characters while walking to work, I worried about them while eating my lunch. . . . By the end of this novel, I felt a part of the community, wishing I were singing them home." -- Elizabethe G. Plante "Stephanie Kallos has a rare gift for identifying that which is common to us all and portraying it in ways that prove each of us special and unique. Her characters are vividly human, flawed, and unpredictable at the same time that they're mercurial, lovable, and familiar." -- Jill Miner "Stephanie Kallos Introduces us to a family that defines the heartland of America. . . . Sing Them Home is gloriously uplifting." -- Geoffrey Jennings "I have goose bumps just thinking of how much I loved Sing Them Home. Stephanie Kallos is an original, brilliant storyteller of the highest ranking. Watch out Tyler, Irving, and Russo, 'cause the competition has arrived. More, please!" -- Sally Brewster ""Sing Them Home" constantly surprises, changing voices, viewpoints, and tempos, mixing humor and pathos, and introducing a big cast of vividly portrayed characters, major and minor. Readers who admired Kallos's first novel, Broken for You, will likely embrace "Sing Them Home," and it will embrace them in return. It's that sort of book."--Diane White, " Boston Globe" "["Sing Them Home"] is a book written for cold winter nights by the fire. . . . Kallos excels at teasing out the emotional damage wrought by [the Jones siblings'] absent mother and remote father. . . . [She] is working in a vast landscape here, both emotional and physical [and] she handles it all with grace, giving each character and plotline a satisfying finish, like chords resolving themselves."--Shawna Seed, "The Dallas Morning News" "With empathy and wit, Kallos weaves together the stories of the living and the dead, creating a world in which love trumps loss and faith can summon redemption. The result is a magical novel that even cynics will close with a smile."--Michelle Green, "People "(31/2 out of 4 stars) "["Sing Them Home"] is a welcome reminder that good contemporary writing can still move slowly. . . . The reader is left with a feeling that the author, the story and the characters have somehow been uncommonly generous in their presentation. . . . Death, loss and remembering are integral parts of the story, and the language of the book can be, at times, wonderfully elegiac and ruminative. . . . [Kallos's] own genuine emotion infuses and drives the story."--Holly Silva, "St. Louis Dispatch" "Fans of Ann Patchett and Haven Kimmel should dive onto the sofa one wintry weekend with Stephanie Kallos's wonderfully transportive second novel, "Sing Them Home." . . . [A] keenly empathetic description of life in . . . . Emlyn Springs, one of those all-too-rare small towns in literature, rich in personality but mercifully free of broad, condescending cliche. . . . As the novel ""Sing Them Home" ushers us into small-town life, with all its distinctive cultural nuances, eccentric personalities, and homegrown secrets. With the same beauty and lyricism of her first novel, "Broken for You," Kallos stitches together a colorful patchwork of memories and images, creating a rich narrative fabric that develops and changes as it passes through each character's hands."--Heather Paulson, "Booklist" "[A] fresh, invigorating novel . . . Kallos tenderly shows us [her characters'] failings as they stumble, in a realistic and satisfying manner, toward better selves. Highly recommended."--"Library Journal "(starred review) "Kallos's enthralling second novel takes the reader by storm. . . . ["Sing Them Home"] will find a welcome audience in anyone who has experienced grief, struggled with family ties or, most importantly, appreciates blossoming talent."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "Brilliant . . . A richly textured, deeply satisfying, and enduring read--a whirlwind of aching sadness, secret histories, sex that's by turns empty and angry and sloppy and transformative, moments of great sweetness and joy that are never saccharine, and ultimately, resolution and redemption that are well-earned and in no way false or forced. Before "Sing Them Home," Kallos was already, arguably, the best first-novelist of the Aughts; now it's abundantly clear that she's becoming quite a bit more than that."--Stephan Nathans-Kelly, First Look Books

This novel is a portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's disappearance when they were children.