Stephanie Kallos Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Stephanie Kallos is a published American author.

She grew up in the United States, being born in Idaho and growing up in Nebraska. Before she decided to move forward with writing, she had a work history that varied but included years working as a musician. She also was in the theater for a long time and held a career as an actress as well as a teacher who directed students in speech, voice, and dialects.

The short fiction that she has written has earned her a Raymond Carver Award (twice) and a nomination for a Pushcart Prize. She has written several essays, and the work that she done as a playwright has been produced and sometimes developed at places such as The Seattle Children’s Theater, the NY Theatre Workshop, and The Empty Space Theatre.

Her first novel to be published was titled Broken for You. It came out in 2004 and received some attention. It would be awarded the Washington State and PNBA Book Awards and was selected by Sue Monk Kidd as her book club selection on the “Today Show”.

The author’s second novel would come out in 2009. Sing Them Home was picked to be part of the All Iowa Reads program and was also named as one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by Entertainment Weekly. It was also a Pacific NW Independent Booksellers bestseller, an IndieNext Selection, and a Pick of the Year by Shelf Awareness.

Her third novel came out in 2015 and was titled Language Arts. It made the shortlist for the Washington State Book Award. It would be adapted into a 2020 feature film by the same name starring Ashley Zukerman, Sarah Shahi, and Elliott Smith.

Stephanie is married and a mother to her two children and is the ‘YiaYia’ to Luna and Forest. She resides with her family in Seattle. She also loves to share her home with her tabby named Tevye, who was born in Brooklyn.

Broken for You is the first novel to come out from Stephanie Kallos. If you are all about checking out the latest bestsellers and seeing exactly why they are selling so well, or you just are interested in debut novels that are about two women who find that their lives change when their paths cross each other that may just end up winning you over, then check this book out.

Sometimes broken things can be beautiful. Margaret Hughes is a woman who is in her seventies. When the reader first encounters her, she is residing in a mansion in the city of Seattle alone with just her large collection of antiques to keep her company.

When Wanda Schultz comes in, this young woman is on a mission to find her boyfriend and try to track him down. She is also nursing a broken heart. Both Margaret and Wanda seem to have their own secrets that they are keeping, and they have built up their own protective armor over the years to keep themselves safe from the world as they look out for themselves.

The two fall into a new friendship that seems to be meant to happen and keeps evolving as they spend more time together. As they do, the armor that they have starts to be shed and Margaret decides that it is time to open her house and let the younger woman in.

However, this may lead to a series of different events that results in not only Margaret unexpectedly finding a way to heal the cursed past that she has been grappling with, and eventually getting Wanda to find out the real purpose behind her journey across the country.

Sad at moments and funny at others, this is a story about surrogate families and shows how even the smallest attempts at repair can go some distance in being able to right the wrongs of the world. Read this book from Stephanie Kallos to absorb it all yourself, page by page!

Sing Them Home is the second fictional novel from Stephanie Kallos. If you loved her debut or are just looking for a bestseller to pick up that is going to interest you too, check this book out!

This is a story about a family set in the heartland. Three siblings who have grown up and have lived in a shadow of unresolved grief since their mother disappeared when they were young are the focus of this novel.

Everyone who lives in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska is familiar with the tale of Hope Jones. She was the wife of a physician who had a vision and dreams for their small town. But before she could achieve them, she was swept away in the great tornado of 1978.

For her three young children, they miss her dearly. They may have a solid life with their father who is distant and with the best friend of their mother Viney, but it’s not the same as having their mother there.

Larken is the oldest out of all of them and is employed as an art history professor. However, he always finds himself pursuing food as a way to deal with a hunger of a different sort that he does not know how to fix.

Then there’s the only son, Gaelan. He’s a telegenic weatherman and he has spent his life devoting himself to being able to predict what cannot be predicted. His profession and more all depend on his frame being fit and his smile being at the ready. There’s also Bonnie, the youngest of the family. She’s an archivist who is looking along the side of the road to find out more about her mother’s legacy as well as a way to get the permission that she seeks to move on.

Their mother disappeared decades ago, but they are all pulled home by the passing of their father. In the process, they must come back to the tragedy that is at the center of all of their lives and maybe process some of what they have been through and stand more firmly in where they currently are today.

Stephanie Kallos has written an incredible second fictional book. Pick up Sing Them Home to absorb all of it for yourself!