Calling Me Home

by Julie Kibler

Book Overview

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 Cincinnati. With no clear explanation why. Tomorrow. Curious whether she can unlock the secrets of Isabelle's guarded past, she agrees, not knowing it will be a journey that changes both their lives. Over the years, Dorrie and Isabelle have developed more than just a business relationship. They are friends. But Dorrie, fretting over the new man in her life and her teenage son's irresponsible choices, still wonders why Isabelle chose her. Isabelle confesses that, as a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor and the black son of her family's housekeeper--in a town where blacks weren't allowed after dark. The tale of their forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences makes it clear Dorrie and Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance and that the history of Isabelle's first and greatest love just might help Dorrie find her own way.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250020433
• ISBN13: 9781250020437
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

I don't remember why this one was on my list...but so glad it was!

It hooked me within the first 2 paragraphs and I literally finished in 24 hours. I don't remember why I even ordered it or who recommended it to me but I am so glad they did. Realistic fiction with fabulous, descriptive narrative. The story moved right along and kept me involved right to the end.

I’d never recommend

If you want an inspiring uplifting read then don’t pick this one up. I finished it several days ago and still have a haunting depressed feeling every time I think about it. It was compared to the book To Kill A Mockingbird but there is no comparison. It’s not in the same league.

Never dismiss your heart...

I love a good southern read and Calling Me Home is right up there at the top! Miss Isabelle falls in love with Robert in a time when interracial relationships were taboo. Their love and trials will tug your heartstrings. These characters feel like family all the way through. Thank you, Julie Kibler, for sharing your writing talent with us all. I am glad I found you! Keep writing.