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

Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Spera, Deb

United States

Park Row

Featured on Oprah’s Summer Reading List\nFor 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.\nIt’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.\nThese 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.\n“Like Jill McCorkle and Sue Monk Kidd, Spera probes the comfort and strength women find in their own company.” 
— O, The Oprah Magazine\n“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

An audacious, timeless story about the power of family, deep-buried secrets, and the ferocity of motherhood that follows three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading up to the Great Depression.

Call Your Daughter Home (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)

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Literary

Harpercollins

Una conmovedora novela protagonizada por tres inolvidables mujeres sureñas en los duros años que precedieron a la Gran Depresión, 
En la Carolina del Sur de 1924, apenas recuperada de una terrible plaga que ha devastado tanto la tierra como la economía, entre pantanos infestados de caimanes y plantaciones de tabaco, tres mujeres muy distintas unirán sus destinos para luchar contra las injusticias cotidianas que atenazan sus vidas. 
Gertrude, blanca y pobre, tiene que tomar una decisión trascendental y trágica para no morir a manos de su marido maltratador y salvar a sus hijas del hambre y el paludismo. Retta pertenece a la primera generación de descendientes de esclavos negros nacida libre, pero sigue trabajando para la misma familia, los Cole, que hasta hace poco fue propietaria de sus padres. Annie, la matriarca de los Cole, dueños de inmensas plantaciones y de una fábrica textil, tiene que lidiar con la terrible verdad que ha fragmentado a su familia. 
Contada a través de sus tres voces, Hijas del Sur es una audaz novela atemporal sobre el poder de la familia, los secretos ocultos y la fiereza de la maternidad, narrada con una gran fuerza lírica y una hondura emocional que cautivará a los fans de Criadas y señoras, El color púrpura o Tomates verdes fritos.

Hijas del Sur (Call Your Daughter Home - Spanish Edition)

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Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel

Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel

Call Your Daughter Home (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)

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Hijas del Sur (Call Your Daughter Home - Spanish Edition)