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.
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. Annie, the matriarch of the influential Coles family, offers Gertrude employment at her sewing circle, while facing problems of her own at home. Retta, a first-generation freed slave, comes to Gertrude’s aid by watching her children, despite the gossip it causes in her community. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters. It’s 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a crossroads. So he filled it with my mother’s things – jewelry, crystal, china, beautiful and delicate laces and silks from around the world – so that I might have my old home within the new, a piece of my past for the future.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. He was a pragmatic man, unsure of what to give a motherless child, a girl no less, on the most special day of my life. My father filled this chest with things he felt I’d need for marriage. This is all that exists of me before I met my husband. Annie Coles:Īt the back of the attic I find the old cherry chest my father gave me when I was a young girl. Alvin’s a big man, rough from the start, but he was church-going, and Daddy said he worked hard.
But every once in a while a fit would pass, and she would remember to mother me.Īlvin rode up on a horse to take me away before I ever laid eyes on him. Gertrude Pardee:īy the time I was Lily’s age, my mama was addled, talking out of her head regular by then. Black folk is fine to do the work long as they don’t have an opinion. Got so everybody in town started calling our neighborhood “Shake Rag.” It stuck. Oretta Bootles:Įvery colored woman on the street had a job washing and cleaning for white folk. '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.
These women have virtually nothing in common, yet they unite to stand up to injustice.īoth black and white, they find strength as women working together toward a common goal.
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