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Dance of Souls Kindle Edition

by Audrey Kalman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Most people facing an existential crisis do ordinary things… like going to church or having children. Some people set things on fire.

Sculptor Amy Freeman fears the worst when her 14-year-old son Zach disappears one morning. In the same California town, science teacher Robert Candine suddenly finds God. His revelation sets him on a collision course with a troubled student, the legal system, and eventually with Amy. Can he find peace in time to stop himself from a reckless act that will change his life forever?

Dance of Souls weaves together the stories of a few lost souls, each seeking meaning in their own way. If you like books that make you think about what drives our life choices, you’ll savor Kalman’s dive into her character’s imperfections, stumbles, and occasional encounters with grace.

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August 6, 2011
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Audrey Kalman writes literary fiction with a dark edge, often about what goes awry when human connection is missing from our lives. She is the author of two novels, What Remains Unsaid (2017) and Dance of Souls (2011), as well as numerous short stories. She lives in northern California with her husband, two children, and two cats, and is working on another novel. More at audreykalman.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005G9272E
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Audrey Kalman; 1st edition (August 6, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 6, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3149 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 204 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,399,476 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4,448 in Psychological Literary Fiction
- #11,258 in Psychological Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #19,483 in Contemporary Literary Fiction

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Audrey Kalman writes fiction with a dark edge about what goes awry when human connection is missing from our lives. She is the author of the short fiction collection "Tiny Shoes Dancing and Other Stories," three novels ("The Last Storyteller," "What Remains Unsaid," and "Dance of Souls"), and dozens of short stories. She was a 2020 Shuffle Collective literary resident and past president of the SF Peninsula Branch of the California Writers Club. Currently, she co-teaches the Birth Your Truest Story workshop, serves as the community support lead for the Brilliant Writer community, and offers editing and coaching services. She is pursuing publication for a recently completed novel and is at work on another. Find out more at audreykalman.com.

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Diane Henders

Beautiful prose

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2013

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This was beautifully written. The characters were absorbing and the writing style was elegant. I found the ending rather unresolved and there were some editing issues toward the end of the book, hence four stars instead of five. But I'm entirely prepared to admit that my dissatisfaction with the ending may be due to my lack of sophistication as a reader (I generally don't read much literary fiction). Regardless of my quibbles, this book is worth reading just for the joy of the prose.

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Tracey

A good read

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2011

My book group read Dance of Souls and had the author, Audrey, attend to discuss it with us. The book had some great characters and I really enjoyed the mother/son relationship as well as how the marriage relationship unfolds. Audrey shared with our group that the inspiration for the book was how people can drift through their own life and through the lives of others. Her characters do this in an interesting story that has a lot of tension. I did not know what was going to happen at the end of the book. A good read!

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Carrie

A Beautifully Written Dramatic Read

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2012

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"Dance of Souls" is a beautifully written book. The reader is intimately introduced to a number of characters whose lives intersect at various points throughout the novel. There's Amy Freeman, an emotionally walled-off sculptor; her son Zach, struggling to come into his own; Mr. Candine a science teacher seduced by the unprovable beliefs of the church and angered by Amy's provocative sculptures; and Rachel, a young, journalist/film maker assigned to record the scandal befelled by Mr. Candine. These are just a a few of the many characters whose lives intertwine, culminating in a page-turning climax, enticing the reader to constantly ask, "What's next?" Ms. Kalman is a talented writer, and I am amicably envious of her ability to string such lovely sentences together.

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Didn't Deliver on its Promise

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2018

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I just didn't get involved with this book. I didn't connect or like any of the characters, and didn't understand most of the motivation for anything they did. In a lot of ways this book seemed like a series of unrelated events that tried to come together to make a cohesive whole, but fell short. Kyle revisiting Mr. Candine; Rachel and Christian; Roxana and Fatima.
The only part that did resonate with me was Zach revisiting Jersey.
The blurb for this book says "The novel examines the shared human longing for a meaningful life, the many ways we search for purpose, and the consequences of tragedies that may change us forever." This intrigued me, and is why I got the book, but was disappointed.
This may have been a problem with the formatting in the ebook, rather than writing style, but a lot of the switches in storyline came abruptly: one paragraph is about storyline A and the next is storyline B. I found this disruptive.
I doubt that I would read another book by this author.

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2012

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I love the intimacy of description in this novel. The author takes me right down to the way things taste and feel and smell, I feel I'm right there in the scene moving through the story with them. It's an experience to read this book.

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Kourtney Heintz

A fantastic literary read!

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2013

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Kalman's Dance of Souls is a terrific work of literary fiction. I savored her writing style. The elegant prose and the beautifully structured sentences led me onward. She employs inner monologue and changing point of view to make sure a well-rounded world takes shape on the page. Kalman weaves together several lives in such an unexpected way. From the beginning, you feel the underlying tension and sense that the characters are careening towards each other. The ending was completely satisfying and I am in awe of how intricately everything came together.

You know you are in the hands of a master craftswoman as you read this book!

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Labrador

Not impressed

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2018

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The book had some interesting story lines - there were just too many of them, in fact too many to resolve satisfactorily. I also found the author to be a bit wordy.

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J C Markham

I'd like this author to edit my book if I ever stop researching it and finish it.

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2015

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This was written by a literary and eclectic author and is obviously based on real life experience. She has written what she knows best. I found it fascinating and I must admit I was born into the psychoanalytic school of literary criticism. My old man was a shrink an MD, This is so evocative of a young girl I dated once and awkwardly(on my part) when I was 16.

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