“Childhood is life’s ultimate puzzle. We keep living it, searching for solutions, often desperately, all our lives. Kelsey’s Puzzling Things writes of these logic-defying puzzles that engage and shape our lives. A probing, insightful narrative.”

“Family, history, and universal longing intersect through Puzzling Things in a masterful weave. Each story and its accompanying puzzle is a doorway into a literary and figurative world that is always compelling, sometimes harrowing, sometimes shocking but always timeless. Kelsey writes with the depth of experience that allows her readers to step forward and follow the narration to a place that is both sophisticated and yet completely natural. I couldn’t put it down. ”