Call Your Daughter Home
A Novel
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
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
Great Read
Great read! Took me a bit to keep the characters straight at first but got the hang of it as I continued.
I wanted so much more…
I loved this read - all the way up until the end. Most reviewers loved it but I wanted an extended ending. It had so much depth and then it just ended in a QUICK and tidy way. Reminded me of the rushed ending to GoT.
Call Your Daughter Home
I never write a review.
This is a special book. There is so much to the story itself let alone the characters that you will feel you can see them and feel their emotions. This is everything a book should be. I didn’t want it to end.