Stephanie Kallos is the author of Broken for You, which was selected by Sue Monk Kidd for the Today Show Book Club and was a national bestseller, and Sing Them Home, one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Ten Best Novels of the year. In her newest novel, Language Arts (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Kallos spins the stories of a dedicated teacher, his enigmatic son, and a wartime survivor into an affecting tale of love, loss, and handwriting. Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But linguistic precision cannot help him connect with his autistic son, or with his ex-wife, who abandoned their shared life years before, or even with his college-bound daughter who has just flown the nest. With the help of an ambitious art student, an Italian-speaking nun, and the memory of a boy in a white suit who inscribed his childhood with both solace and sorrow, Charles may finally be able to rewrite the script of his life. In A starred review, Booklist calls this, “a wondrously beautiful story of love and loss, offering hope in the face of the harshest reality.”
