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"Kaylie Jones's striking novel...quivers with tension from the opening page...[A] lovely, finely plotted novel, which highlights colorful San Miguel and the complexities of family, loyalty and honesty. The Anger Meridian is at once a suspenseful mystery and a superlatively gripping story of self-discovery."--Shelf Awareness, Starred review"Jones...has written a compulsively readable novel about a woman who manages to come into her own. With engaging characters, a compelling story, and a seductive sense of place, this is a literary treat."--BOOKLIST "Jones creates a seething portrait of a narcissistic mother in this story of an adult daughter's attempt to reconcile the appearance of her prosperous and successful family with the harsh reality of a life built on a series of lies.



About the Author

Kaylie Jones

My newest novel, THE ANGER MERIDIAN, will be published in July 2015.

I've published five novels, including A SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES, CELESTE ASCENDING, and SPEAK NOW. In 2009 I published my first memoir, LIES MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME. I am the only daughter of the novelist James Jones, who wrote the WWII trilogy FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, THE THIN RED LINE, and WHISTLE.

A SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES was made into a Merchant-Ivory film starring Kris Kristofferson, Leelee Sobieski, Jesse Bradford, Barbara Hershey, and Isaac de Bankole.

In 2013 I started Kaylie Jones Books, an imprint of Akashic Books. The purpose of this imprint is to publish entertaining and meaningful literary fiction and to give the authors a chance to be involved in the publishing process from editing to publication.

I chair the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, which awards $10,000 annually to an unpublished first novel. During the past 20 years, many of the winners have been published to impressive critical acclaim.

I teach creative writing in the MFA Writing and Literature program at Stony Brook Southampton, and at the Wilkes University MFA program in professional writing.

I live in New York with my daughter and our Shi-poo, Natalie.



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