Call Your Daughter Home
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4.3 • 330 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
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
Customer Reviews
Slow start .. but just right
At first I thought I wouldn’t enjoy this book as much as I did but by the 3rd chapter I was hooked.
loved it
it was so intriguing and the narrator was to die for.
Call Your Daughter Home
There is nothing like excellent narration to make a good book great. The attention to old southern tradition with respect to cooking and the lives lived, reminded me somewhat of growing up in the south. My first choice would not have been to listen to this book because I try not to listen to books that write about the comfort of black subservience. When I listened to the preview, despite it being historically written, the strength of the women immediately hooked me. Glad I listened.