Archive for August, 2009
Publishers Weekly Starred Review: Lies My Mother Never Told Me
Publishers Weekly Starred Review: Lies My Mother Never Told Me Kaylie Jones. Morrow, $25.99 Accomplished author Jones (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries), daughter of famed literary figure James Jones, has spent most of her life avoiding the twin parental legacies of fame and alcoholism. In this brilliant, touching memoir, Jones faces both head-on. Jones explores [...]
Library Love Fest Review: Lies My Mother Never Told Me
Kaylie Jones Finds Her Voice “My grandmother used to say “in order to really know someone, you have to walk in their shoes”. Sometimes what a person projects on the outside is really not what is going on inside. To some, novelist Kaylie Jones lived the perfect life with a beautiful mother and a famous [...]
