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Where is my mommy? Here is a book that not only helps us find mother Hope, but Hope itself, in spite of and precisely because Hope's children are a desperate bunch with little chance of redemption. These quirky/normal folks from "Our Town"/Anytown have bleeding insides and we get to find out exactly why they are hurting. From a beginning of hilarious impossibility (the dead not only have voices, they even do research), Hope's diary and the multiple-voiced narratives thread the unlikely past (a person brought back to life by music, a mother who "went up") to a very real, somewhat unlikeable, but much more livable future.
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Sing Them Home: A Novel by Stephanie Kallos
lauriekoc, November 11, 2010
Where is my mommy? Here is a book that not only helps us find mother Hope, but Hope itself, in spite of and precisely because Hope's children are a desperate bunch with little chance of redemption. These quirky/normal folks from "Our Town"/Anytown have bleeding insides and we get to find out exactly why they are hurting. From a beginning of hilarious impossibility (the dead not only have voices, they even do research), Hope's diary and the multiple-voiced narratives thread the unlikely past (a person brought back to life by music, a mother who "went up") to a very real, somewhat unlikeable, but much more livable future.