Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the story of the ways we put things back together-messily, beautifully, and ultimately triumphantly. Kallos is a writer to… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“...the women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.” — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given. — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“[N]ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she'd sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“[H]e went ahead and named them without her, pulling from the spiral notebook of names they'd been collecting, putting together first and middle names… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“He loved that she eschewed cursive for print, as he did. Cursive, more than anything, betrayed a person's age.” — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad. — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“All the Baptist churches she's ever visited smelled of the same sweat and boredom.” — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“God must feel the same at the end of a long day. Stop trying to make Me happy with all that ritual up and… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“He makes her feel halfway normal by being so much further beyond her.” — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
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