{"id":625,"date":"2011-03-10T02:17:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolene-test.com.bishopcompsol.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2011-03-10T02:17:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:17:58","slug":"sing-them-home-by-stephanie-kallos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/sing-them-home-by-stephanie-kallos\/","title":{"rendered":"Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-1841.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-626\" title=\"shapeimage_1-18\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-1841-197x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-1841-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-1841.png 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sing Them Home<\/em> by Stephanie Kallos was an unknown entity when I picked the audio version at the library a few weeks ago. The large yellow sticker on the front of the audio CD case labeled it at 2011\u2018s All Iowa Read.<\/p>\n<p>The plot summary on the back cover introduced Hope Jones, a woman swallowed by a tornado in the mid-1970s and alluded to her disappearance and it\u2019s impact on the lives of her three children, even into adulthood. The Iowa\/tornado connection was obvious, but when I took the book home and began listening, others emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Hope and her family live in Emlyn Springs, a small, fictitious town with Welsh roots south of Lincoln, Nebraska. The town is a vibrant community when Hope and her physician husband, Llewellyn move there in the early 1960s. Over the years, Emlyn Springs follows the same slow decline of many small, Iowa towns, exacerbated by the farm crisis in the 1980s. By the early 2000s, Emlyn Springs, home of Fancy Egg Days, is struggling to survive.<\/p>\n<p>The book had another, more personal connection. Hope Jones, mother of three, is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) when her children are young. At the heart of the book is the devastation wrought on Hope\u2019s body and self-image, her marriage, and her children by the nasty, debilitating disease. It\u2019s effects were a whirlwind of destruction, every bit as treacherous and confusing as the tornadoes that strike Emlyn Springs in 1978 and 2004.<\/p>\n<p>How could I not compare and contrast the Jones family\u2019s experience to our own?<br \/>\nDad was diagnosed in 1958. Hope some years later.<br \/>\nMom\u2019s total, almost obsessive devotion to Dad. Llewellyn Jones pulling away from him.<br \/>\nThe impact of the illness on Hope\u2019s three children into adulthood. My siblings and I, also.<br \/>\nEmlyn Springs residents caring more than Hope realized. The same was true in our town.<br \/>\nThe ways MS changed Hope\u2019s personality. The ways it changed my father, too.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I didn\u2019t like Hope much by the end of the book. I didn\u2019t like her response to the disease, even though I understood her reasons. Her multiplied devastation in her family. She was like someone who chooses to stand on the roof during a tornado instead of going to the basement. <em>Sing Them Home<\/em> bothered me. A lot. I found it too dark, too lacking in hope &#8211; ironic in light of the main character\u2019s name. But I\u2019m glad to have read it and wholeheartedly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because it gives an accurate picture of small town, midwestern life. And once you\u2019re read it, you will look at multiple sclerosis with new eyes. So I say, join all Iowa and read this book. Hopefully, it will bother you, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos was an unknown entity when I picked the audio version at the library a few weeks ago. 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