The story takes place in 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina, shortly after the region’s economy was decimated by a boll weevil infestation. I’m Betty Martin with "Martin’s Must Reads" and those are the first lines to Deb Spera’s novel Call Your Daughter Home. You got to watch for the weakness, and take your shot to the back of the head. “A mesmerizing Southern tale…Authentic, gripping, a page-turner, yet also a novel filled with language that begs to be savored.“It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait. “Like Jill McCorkle and Sue Monk Kidd, Spera probes the comfort and strength women find in their own company.” 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. 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.
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