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Kaylie Jones is the author of the forthcoming memoir, LIES MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME.

Kaylie chairs the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, which awards $10,000 annually to an unpublished first novel.

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Books by Kaylie Jones

Average rating: 3.62 · 341 ratings · 69 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir 366 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries 348 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Celeste Ascending: A Novel 342 avg rating — 55 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Speak Now 367 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Quite the Other Way 408 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	As Soon as It Rains 375 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Long Island Noir 350 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	A Reader's Guide to a Soldier's Daughter Never Cries 500 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Celeste Ascending 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Ice-cream Headache & Other Stories by James Jones, Kaylie Jones (Introduction) 377 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Medical research has revealed that in about one-tenth of the population, the liver processes alcohol differently, releasing a chemical messenger that creates the craving for another drink; once that second drink is taken, the desire is doubled. But the real problem of the alcoholic is actually centered in the mind, because we can’t remember why it was such a bad idea to pick up that first drink. Once we start, we can’t stop; and when we stop, we can’t remember why we shouldn’t start again. It is a form of mental illness, like a manic-depressive who, after being stabilized on medication for a while, suddenly decides she is fine and no longer needs her pills.
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― Kaylie Jones, Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir

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“You’re in the hallway and it feels scary right now but just keep going. There’s another door, and you’re going to find it. And then the whole world is going to open up to you.”
― Kaylie Jones, Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir

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“I had a friend in high school named Sally Newlyn who explained what had gone wrong with God's plan for the world. During one of her schizophrenic episodes, she told me that God had given mankind a finite number of souls. He set them free in the sky where they orbited silently until they were needed for the newly conceived. He intended for the souls to be reincarnated so that humanity would grow more generous and wise with each generation. But God had underestimated man's propensity to go forth and multiply, and so, on our planet today, millions of bodies were roaming the earth searching in the vain for a soul.”
― Kaylie Jones, Celeste Ascending: A Novel

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