PORT HADLOCK —“Writers, at their best, are in dialogue with their readers,” believes Stephanie Kallos, author of the best-selling novel Broken for You.
If not for the imagination and heart readers bring to books, “our characters would languish; our stories would never be heard,” she writes on her website, stephaniekallos.com.
So Kallos will come from her Seattle home to the rural Jefferson County Library, 620 Cedar Ave., for a free reading and conversation at 6:30 p.m. today.
She’ll talk about her new novel Language Arts, a tale of a dedicated teacher, his enigmatic son and a wartime survivor.
Love, loss and handwriting are involved too.
Kallos is the winner of a Raymond Carver Award as well as a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Broken for You, her first novel, won the Washington State Book Award and Pacific Northwest Book Award; her next book, Sing Them Home, was an IndieBound selection and one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of 2009.
Besides writing novels, Kallos has a stage background; she spent two decades in the theater as an actor and teacher.
To find out more about her reading and other free activities at the Jefferson County Library, visit www.jclibrary.info or phone 360-385-6544.
