Kayla King Books

James Taylor sings, well if you feel lost and lonely and don't know where to go, while I write this. I think of someone else singing this...

You're whatever kinda gem you wanna be, my best friend wrote at the end of his email. The email had nothing to do with gemology. And the...

When we give advice, we hope others will listen. Rarely do we take our own words of wisdom and put them to use. And I'm not sure anyone...

Today, of all days, I am reminded of what it has been like getting the opportunity to grow up with a mom who is everything a mom should...

Latifah Salom’s novel, The Cake House, is just as delectable as the title suggests. That's not to say that this novel is purely a sugary...

Pete Hautman’s newest young adult novel, Eden West, places the reader within the borders of Nodd, a place where many have gathered to...

I was fortunate enough to read The Whisper, Aaron Starmer's sequel to The Riverman, back in January. At residency, I was given the ARC...

Brian Andreas' fourth voulme from StoryPeople, Strange Dreams: Collected Stories and Drawings, found its way into my life in an...

Yesterday I finished All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven. Reading this book was like stepping out of the shadows into the bright...

When I left Ben Lerner's Atocha Station behind, I didn't know how much I'd miss the words embedded along those railroad tracks. Reading...