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Sing them home

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.

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  • "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."@en
  • "In 1978, Aneira Hope Jones is scooped up by a tornado, leaving her three young children behind forever in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska. Now, even twenty-five years later, the siblings still struggle with their loss."@en
  • "When Hope Jones vanishes in the midst of a tornado in 1978, her three children deal with the sudden loss in their own ways, but when their father dies decades later, they delve into their history to come to terms with the tragedy that has always haunted them."
  • "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. 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."@en
  • "In 1978, Hope Jones is scooped up by a tornado, leaving her three young children behind forever in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska. Now, even twenty-five years later, the siblings still struggle with their loss."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. After the loss of their mother, the Jones children - Larken, Gaelan, and Bonnie - have grown into adulthood under the shadow of unresolved grief and become encased in town myth. Everyone in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska, knows the story of Aneira Hope Jones, the woman swallowed up by a tornado, never to return to earth, and of the painful legacy bestowed on her children, always longing for the gift of their mother's bones, for a release from the past and their identities as motherless children. They have, both knowingly and unknowingly, condemned themselves to the task of interpreting and paying homage to the story of their mother's life; thus they have never claimed their own. Sing Them Home will delight readers with its warmth, humor, and wisdom."

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  • "Sing them home"@en
  • "Sing them home"
  • "Sing them home (unabridged)"@en

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