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“Sometimes the most powerful words are the ones you‘re still searching for.”

English teacher Marlow struggles to connect with his autistic son, his ex-wife and his college-bound daughter - powerful and poignant with love and loss and an amazing twist at its conclusion.

#College 📚

#Falling🍁

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“Memory —by its very nature unreliable—is what allows us to retroactively create the blueprints of our lives, because it is often impossible to make sense of our lives when we‘re inside them, when the narratives are still unfolding.”

Hauntingly beautiful, with a “just-right” ending…🩵🩵🩵

#Professor

#SchoolSpirit

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As Charles Marlow weathers the struggle of supporting his severely autistic son, he reflects on a formative year of elementary school when he became both a standout pupil and a friend to a special needs kid in his class. Add a pair of crumbling marriages, a student‘s perceptive senior project, a nun with dementia, an unexpected twist, and a serendipitous reunion - you get this strange and wonderful book. I LOVED how Kallos brought it all together.

Ha ha I see what you did there... 🧐😄

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. Underrated novel with amazing twists
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#acrossapril

This book is amazing! I couldn't put it down. The ending was totally unexpected and beautiful.

Hauntingly beautiful with some delightful twists

Shelf talker @Powells features a lovely blurb by Jamie Ford--"like yoga for my heart." #getindie

Did anyone else read this? It was a surprisingly complex, well written, and thoughtful book about diseases that take language from us and the power of nonverbal communication. I thoroughly enjoyed Kallos's writing, but it didn't get much buzz last summer.
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