Monday, 17 March 2014

A really great read - "Calling Me Home" by Julie Kibler. Dorrie, a black single mom who owns her own hair salon, is asked by Isabelle (one of her elderly customers) to drop everything and drive her form her home in Texas to a funeral near ...Cincinati. As they drive, Isabelle confesses her longest kept secret - as a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, the son of her family's black housekeeper. As we hear her story, we also are witness to the social conditions in the South at that time - a beautiful and poignant story, well written and unforgettable.
 
 

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