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New cover art: Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
The new novel from Stephanie Kallos, the best-selling author of Broken for You spins the stories of a dedicated teacher, his enigmatic son, and a wartime survivor into an affecting tale of love, loss, and handwriting.
About the story:
Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But linguistic precision cannot help him connect with his autistic son, or with his ex-wife, who abandoned their shared life years before, or even with his college-bound daughter who has just flown the nest. He’s at the end of a road he’s traveled on autopilot for years when a series of events forces him to think back on the lifetime of decisions and indecisions that have brought him to this point. With the help of an ambitious art student, an Italian-speaking nun, and the memory of a boy in a white suit who inscribed his childhood with both solace and sorrow, Charles may finally be able to rewrite the script of his life.
Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But linguistic precision cannot help him connect with his autistic son, or with his ex-wife, who abandoned their shared life years before, or even with his college-bound daughter who has just flown the nest. He’s at the end of a road he’s traveled on autopilot for years when a series of events forces him to think back on the lifetime of decisions and indecisions that have brought him to this point. With the help of an ambitious art student, an Italian-speaking nun, and the memory of a boy in a white suit who inscribed his childhood with both solace and sorrow, Charles may finally be able to rewrite the script of his life.
About the subject of this cover art:
We represented Cody, the autistic son, as a child even though he is 21 years…(There are a lot of flashback in the childhood of Cody and also in the childhood of his father Charles..) We imagined Cody as an acrobat. He is on the circular line of his calligraphy while he is drawing circles around the moon hanging in the sky. Our idea is to communicate sense of balance, serenity, dream, emotions, new dimension of communication..
We represented Cody, the autistic son, as a child even though he is 21 years…(There are a lot of flashback in the childhood of Cody and also in the childhood of his father Charles..) We imagined Cody as an acrobat. He is on the circular line of his calligraphy while he is drawing circles around the moon hanging in the sky. Our idea is to communicate sense of balance, serenity, dream, emotions, new dimension of communication..
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The book is now available: www.amazon.com
