Call Your Daughter Home

By Deb Spera

Book Overview

Featured on Oprah's Summer Reading List

For readers of Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood.

It's 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a crossroads. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters. Retta, a first-generation freed slave, comes to Gertrude's aid by watching her children, despite the gossip it causes in her community. Annie, the matriarch of the influential Coles family, offers Gertrude employment at her sewing circle, while facing problems of her own at home.

These three women seemingly have nothing in common, yet as they unite to stand up to injustices that have long plagued the small town, they find strength in the bond that ties women together. Told in the pitch-perfect voices of Gertrude, Retta, and Annie, Call Your Daughter Home is an emotional, timeless story about the power of family, community, and ferocity of motherhood.

"Like Jill McCorkle and Sue Monk Kidd, Spera probes the comfort and strength women find in their own company."
-- O, The Oprah Magazine

"A mesmerizing Southern tale...Authentic, gripping, a page-turner, yet also a novel filled with language that begs to be savored."
-- Lisa Wingate, New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778307743
• ISBN13: 9780778307747
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Park Row
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Riveting

I really liked this book about women from three distinct classes and how their lives wove together. I highly recommend it.

Heartbreaking very raw must read

I am retired so I was blessed to not have to put this amazing book down except to eat, etc. This is really a book that stays with you if you have the depth to put yourself in the life of some of the characters. Do read this book but do not rush through it - take it into your heart and realize it's based on truth.