Megan Kruse is a fiction and creative nonfiction writer from the Pacific Northwest. She studied creative writing at Oberlin College and earned her MFA at the University of Montana, where she was awarded a Bertha Morton scholarship. Her creative writing has appeared in Narrative Magazine, The Sun, Witness Magazine, Thumbnail Magazine, Bellingham Review, and Phoebe, among others. She lives in Seattle.
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author, essayist, short story writer, biographer, novelist and memoirist. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which spent 199 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and was also made into a film by the same name. She lives in Frenchtown, NJ.
5 Under 35 Honoree
National Book Foundation Megan Kruse is a young writer of raw and
fearless talent and Call Me Home showcases all she can do. She
writes here of harrowing lives -- of a family bent and broken by
violence, where each person is desperately trying to somehow grow
toward light and liberation. In the process, she offers a most
unlikely tale of hardness and hustle, of grace and loss, of painful
love and tough breaks and the unimaginable paths we must all
eventually take toward survival. --Elizabeth Gilbert, Author of
Eat, Pray, Love Call Me Home is an uncommonly powerful debut novel.
Megan Kruse writes with great heart and intelligence as she crafts
a gripping story from the shards of a broken family. --Jess Walter,
Author of Beautiful Ruins I've been a big fan of Megan Kruse for a
long time, but Call Me Home left me astonished by her talent.
Beautifully written, deeply felt and utterly compelling, this story
of a desperate family separated and on the run is full of
unforgettable scenes and richly imagined characters and heady
suspense. It's so vivid, it feels like my own memory. I recommend
it with all my heart. --Dan Chaon, Author of Await Your Reply Megan
Kruse has written a tough, unflinching and very loving story about
an isolated family trying to scrape by and find a way, one way or
another, to survive. I was deeply moved by the lives of her
characters and scared for them right up to the end. Just a
wonderful book, in every way. --Beverly Lowry, Author of Crossed
Over: A Murder, A Memoir An urgent, beautiful book about love and
its consequences, set against a backdrop of the unglamorized West.
These characters will lodge themselves in your imagination, stick
with you long after you're done reading. A fine and original first
novel. --Kevin Canty, Author of Winslow in Love I'm not sure how
Megan Kruse did it. Her first novel manages to be a swift yet
contemplative story of how a family can love each other fiercely
even when every heart involved gets broken. Through its cast of
characters, she is able to focus on what makes a human life shine
with joy or ache with conflict. Her writing is cinematic--going
from intense close-ups to beautiful sweeping wide shots. Call Me
Home is a multi-layered and deeply felt wonder. --Kevin Sampsell,
Author of A Common Pornography I can't stop thinking about this
book. Call Me Home is a harrowing, beautiful, and tender novel
about the meaning of home, loneliness, and the endurance of love.
Megan Kruse is a talented and fearless writer, and the prose is
just stunning. Call Me Home is a tremendous accomplishment.
--Carter Sickels, Author of The Evening Hour Megan Kruse is a
stunning and inspiring new voice in American literature. Her
beautiful debut, Call Me Home, proves that even as the violence of
our lives invents us, a story can do something like save us. Read
it and stick it in your heart. --Ariel Gore, Author of The End of
Eve The language is stunning, and the book delivers all the
satisfactions of characterization and story that I seek in a great
novel. Cai Emmons, The Register-Guard A powerful debut novel told
with ferocity and grace. STARRED REVIEW Publishers Weekly The art
Kruse brings to her endeavor will carry the day. MICHAEL CART
Booklist What is home, and where is your life supposed to be, if
where you are is a place of pain and fear? These are questions that
arise in "Call Me Home," Seattle author Megan Kruse's impressively
forceful debut novel. WINGATE PACKARD Seattle Times Kruse's
evocative, often lyrical language serves her subjects well, so that
what results is not unleavened pain but painful beauty, even hope.
JULIA JENKINS Shelf Awareness Call Me Home, packs quiet power...
Kruse can craft a fine sentence. SARA RAUCH Lambda Literary Megan
Kruse's first novel startles in its capacity for complexity... a
blistering story of lightness and darkness, the power of family and
the capacity we have to hurt those closest to us." RACHEL HURN
The San Francisco Chronicle Kruse's quiet debut hints at a
formidable literary power as she explores what it means to live
with fear while also searching for some sense of home. JEANNE
KOLKER Wisconsin State Journal
Kruse's first novel startles in its capacity for complexity,
showing not only the tempestuous nature of family love, but also
the near-impossible task of breaking free of it. -- BEST BOOKS OF
2015, The San Francisco Chronicle In this beautifully written,
haunting family drama, Kruse explores themes of abuse, fear, love,
longing and home. An absolutely gripping read from an amazing debut
author also recognized as a 2015 National Book Foundation 5 Under
35 honoree. --2016 AWARD WINNER, PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOKSELLERS
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