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Kaylie Jones, Daughter of Award-Winning Novelist James Jones, to Visit Best of Books on Wednesday, October 7 at 5:30 p.m.

The only daughter of the award-winning novelist James Jones (From Here to Eternity), Kaylie Jones grew up in the epicenter of the literary world. Her brilliant father and strikingly beautiful mother, Gloria, counted such luminaries as James Baldwin, William Styron, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Willie Morris, Irwin Shaw, and Kurt Vonnegut among their circle of friends. But hidden behiind the family's glamorous image were alcoholism and emotional abuse that would eventually threaten to destory Kaylie.

In Lies My Mother Never Told Me, the author explores her battle to conquer her own drinking problem, her efforts to honor a doting father who died much too young, and--most of all--her struggle to come to terms with an alcoholic mother capable of incredible generosity and astonishing cruelty.