Calling Me Home: A Novel

Calling Me Home: A Novel

Calling Me HomeÂ by Julie Kibler is aÂ soaring debut interweavingÂ the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.

Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllisterÂ has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. With no clear explanationÂ why. Tomorrow.

Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own and curious whether she can unlock the secrets of Isabelle's guarded past, scarcely hesitates before agreeing, not knowing it will be a journey that changes both their lives.

Over the years, Dorrie and Isabelle have developed more than just a business relationship. They are friends. ButÂ Dorrie, fretting over the new man in her life and her teenage son's irresponsible choices, still wonders why Isabelle chose her.

Isabelle confesses that, as a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor and the black son of her family's housekeeper--in a town where blacks weren't allowed after dark. The tale of their forbidden relationshipÂ and its tragic consequences makes it clear Dorrie and Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance and that the history of Isabelle's first and greatest love just might help Dorrie find her own way.
Country USA
Manufacturer St. Martin's Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-02-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	St. Martin's Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-02-12
Format	Kindle eBook

Calling Me Home: A Novel

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