"With empathy and wit, Kallos weaves together the stories of the living and the dead, creating a world in which love trumps loss and faith can summon redemption. The result is a magical novel that even cynics will close with a smile."--People (31/2 out of 4 stars)

"Sing Them Home constantly surprises, changing voices, viewpoints, and tempos, mixing humor and pathos, and introducing a big cast of vividly portrayed characters, major and minor. Readers who admired Kallos's first novel, Broken for You, will likely embrace Sing Them Home, and it will embrace them in return. It's that sort of book."--Boston Globe

"Sing Them Home is simply wonderful. It's a welcome tonic to those of us who look back with great longing to Anne Tyler's early novels. . . . that is, those of us hungry for books with quirky, flawed, yet realistic and beloved characters who leap off the page into our arms and refuse to leave. I didn't want Sing Them Home ever to end."--KUOW/NPR online

"[Sing Them Home] is a book written for cold winter nights by the fire. . . . Kallos excels at teasing out the emotional damage wrought by [the Jones siblings'] absent mother and remote father. . . . [She] is working in a vast landscape here, both emotional and physical [and] she handles it all with grace, giving each character and plotline a satisfying finish, like chords resolving themselves."--The Dallas Morning News

"[Sing Them Home] is a welcome reminder that good contemporary writing can still move slowly. . . . The reader is left with a feeling that the author, the story and the characters have somehow been uncommonly generous in their presentation. . . . Death, loss and remembering are integral parts of the story, and the language of the book can be, at times, wonderfully elegiac and ruminative. . . . [Kallos's] own genuine emotion infuses and drives the story."--St. Louis Dispatch

"Not since the Wizard of Oz has a tornado been used to such potent literary effect. . . . Dorothy may have thought that there's no place like home, but what happens when there's no house left at the old address, and no real parent figure to go home to? The Jones siblings take a further step down the road to enlightenment: They learn that home is where the heart is. . . . Kallos performs ample wizardry in blending both tears and quirky humor in this tale of lost souls."-- Seattle Times

"Deeply satisfying . . . Kallos's skillful depiction of grief, love, and healing contains moments of lyrical transcendence, which is only fitting in a novel about the power of song."--Charlotte Observer

"A beautiful book narrated in a style that flirts with magical realism . . . [Sing Them Home is] a multidimensional, complex, and fascinating tale. . . . An ambitious novel, full of vivid characters and intriguing secrets. And the setting is unforgettable. . . . Kallos deftly slips between dream and reality, between the watchful dead and those they've left behind. It's an imaginative and ab