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Call Your Daughter Home (Original)
Call Your Daughter Home (Original) | Deb Spera
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A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading up to the Great DepressionIt's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles, influential plantation proprietors who once owned her family. Annie is the matriarch of the Coles family and must come to terms with the terrible truth that has ripped her family apart.These three women seemingly have nothing in common, yet as they unite to stand up to the terrible 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 audacious, timeless story about the power of family, deep-buried secrets and the ferocity of motherhood.
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Areader2
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Starting to feel like fall, drinking hot tea ☕️ 🍂🍁

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Areader2
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So true ! 🎉

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a.bookish.byrd
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Chili
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#LMPBC Group L @thebluestocking @suvata @sprainedbrain Has anyone read any of these? Suggestions?

Samplergal I love Paul Auster but I haven‘t read that one. 5y
Chili @Samplergal I love him too! 5y
suvata They all look good!!!! I‘ve never read any Paul Auster. 5y
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sprainedbrain Let‘s do the Auster! 5y
Chili If @thebluestocking is okay with it, I will go with Auster. 5y
thebluestocking Works for me!!! 5y
Chili Auster it is. 👍 5y
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kristankremer
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I'm excited for some good Southern Lit drama. First chapter in Gert didn't let me down. This one is told from the perspective of 3 women and it feels like something that Reese Witherspoon might make into a movie *fingers crossed*.

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Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you're in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it's over. I don't know why I was surprised when the children grew up, but I was. I thought, in their youth, it would last forever. Now I see that it was my youth, not theirs that was speaking. The past is now and now and now. P. 169

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Sometimes the years fly by so fast that it's like flipping pages in a book, but a day can take so long that a whole life's gone by before the sun sets down. P. 53

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“It‘s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait.”

Loved this amazing book! Is right up there w/Where The Crawdads Sing so if you enjoyed that you will this one too. Spira‘s debut novel is set in 1920‘s S Carolina lowcountry w/3 women who struggle w/racism, family dysfunction, poverty. Spira skillfully leads you into each woman‘s life + surroundings making this a very atmospheric and descriptive novel. Not to be missed!

Hazel0303 Loved this!! 5y
tammysue @Hazel0303 Yay, happy you enjoyed it - Is one of my favorites so far this year! 🤩 5y
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Hazel0303
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I read this a while ago, but I really think this is a diamond in the rough. It wasn't perfect, but it was a really, solid book about three extraordinary women who faced some serious odds.

My full review on GR here! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2519217321

kyraleseberg This was my favorite book last year; I've recommended this to so many people! I can't wait for its release! 5y
Hazel0303 @kyraleseberg Totally agree! 5y
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