Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera

Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera

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

Spera, Deb: - Deb Spera was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and lives in Los Angeles. She owns her own television company, One-Two Punch Productions, and has executive produced such shows as Criminal Minds and Army Wives. Her work's been published in Sixfold, Garden and Gun, and Yoga Journal. CALL YOUR DAUGHTER HOME is her first novel.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780778309796
ISBN 10	0778309797
Title	Call Your Daughter Home
Author	Deb Spera
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Park Row
Year published	2020-04-07
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.