MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009278903
003 DLC
005 20150116083240.0
008 090603s2009 nyu 000 1 eng d
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020 $a0871139634
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn148600614
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050 00 $aPS3611.A444$bS56 2009
082 04 $a813/.6$222
100 1 $aKallos, Stephanie.
245 10 $aSing them home /$cStephanie Kallos.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press ;$a[Berkeley, Calif.] :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$cc2009.
300 $a542 p. :$c24 cm.
520 $aThis 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. 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.
650 0 $aAdult children$vFiction.
650 0 $aGrief$vFiction.
650 0 $aParents$xDeath$vFiction.
655 0 $aDomestic fiction.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009278903-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2009278903-d.html