"Calling Me Home "by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendshipEighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a b[...]
In "Calling Me Home" by Julie Kibler, eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister 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 Isabelle from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinna[...]
A moving love story inspired by a true story and perfect for fans of The Help In a time of hate, would you stand up for love? Shalerville, Kentucky, 1939. A world where black maids and handymen are trusted to raise white children and tend to white houses, but from which they are banished after dark.[...]
Kentucky, 1939. Kuusitoistavuotias Isabelle McAllister haluaisi paeta kotikaupunkinsa ahdasmielisyyttä. Kun hän ystävystyy perheensä taloudenhoitajan pojan kanssa, ympäröivän yhteiskunnan säännöt tuntuvat entistä mahdottomammilta. Isabellen ja Robertin kotikaupungissa on kylttejä, joissa[...]