Sing Them Home

I just finished Stephanie Kallos' new novel Sing Them Home.

It is a huge sweeping novel taking us back and forth through the lives of 3 now adult children and their mother who was lost in a tornado when they were young. It is set in a small Welsh town in Nebraska's tornado belt. I loved reading about the customs and songs of the Welsh people and trying to read their language with no vowels. Stephanie Kallos is a wonderful writer and I truly enjoyed the journey this novel took me on. However, it did leave me unsatisfied in many ways. I wanted to hear more from the dead, especailly Hope, the dead mother. I wanted to hear from the father after he passed on, and I wanted more resolution to Viney's, (the stepmother) story. Kallos created a wonderful cast of characters and a engaging picture of small town life, but somehow the novel was just not all the way there for me.

I enjoyed her first novel Broken for You even more than this one. That one's worth checking out.