Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

National best seller and Today show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect. Stephanie Kallos's debut novel is a work of infinite charm, wit and heart. It is also a glorious homage to the beauty of broken things. When we meet septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, she is living alone in a mansion in Seattle with only a massive collection of valuable antiques for company. Enter Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart who has come west to search for her wayward boyfriend. Both women are guarding dark secrets and have spent many years building up protective armor against the outside world. As their tentative friendship evolves, the armor begins to fall away and Margaret opens her house to the younger woman. This launches a series of unanticipated events, leading Margaret to discover a way to redeem her cursed past, and Wanda to learn the true purpose of her cross-country journey. Both funny and heartbreaking, Broken for You is a testament to the saving graces of surrogate families and shows how far the tiniest repair jobs can go in righting the world's wrongs.

Stephaine Kallos worked as an actress and teacher in the theater for twenty years, and her short fiction has been nominated for a Raymond Carver Award and a Pushcart Prize. Broken for You, her critically acclaimed novel, won the 2005 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Award and was chosen for Today's Book Club by Sue Monk Kidd, later becoming a national success.

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ISBN 13	9780802142108
ISBN 10	0802142109
Title	Broken for You
Author	Stephanie Kallos
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2005-06-07
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Winner of Washington State Book Award (Fiction) 2005
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