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Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel (edição: 2020)

de Deb Spera (Autor)

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"It'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."--Publisher's description.… (mais)
Membro:maryzee
Título:Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel
Autores:Deb Spera (Autor)
Informação:Park Row (2020), Edition: Reissue, 384 pages
Coleções:Sua biblioteca
Avaliação:*****
Etiquetas:Depression, South, domestic abuse

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It was okay. I expected something a little different and I didn’t feel a connection between the three characters and I thought it would carry out through the book but didn’t, really nothing mildly interesting happened until the last 100 pages and even then it was underwhelming. ( )
  Summer345456 | Jan 25, 2023 |
This book started out strong. (5) Kept my attention. It was great, but about halfway through, it kinda lost my interest. Parts were good but it seemed to drone on and on going nowhere. A condensed version would be better. I was so glad when I finished it. So it lost steam, in my opinion. Parts of the ladies stories were somewhat repetitive. If it had just focused on 1 or 2 characters I feel it would have been better and easier to keep your interest. ( )
  Leessa | Sep 3, 2022 |
As soon as I started living with the expectation of having a friend by my side through old age, I found her dead on the kitchen floor. Now the whole world is upside down in thought and action, and my days are filled with worry about what I can’t see that’s waitin’ around the corner.

It is what is waiting around the corner for three women living in 1924 South Carolina that makes up the bulk of this captivating debut novel by Deb Spera. What a debut it is! Anne is a wealthy woman, mistress of a large house with servants and owner of a local business on the verge of becoming something more. Retta is a black woman, a descendant of the slaves who once served at this house, and herself still a part of the fabric of its existence, but also an independent minded and strong woman, testing the limits of the world she now inhabits. And finally, there is Gertrude, a white woman living in poverty with her shiftless husband and four daughters--a woman given away in marriage to a cruel man, struggling to find a way out and into a life that might offer more than starvation and fear.

It being 1924, and there being a black woman involved, there is a necessary picture of the racial divide. Retta is, without doubt, my favorite character in the story, exhibiting a strength that draws others to her, particularly the white people who need both her physical and spiritual help. The mindset she is battling against is summed up beautifully in the words of her mother:

She’d say, “We all born the same, we all die the same, ain’t no difference in that truth. But when you a Negro, you got to watch your mouth. What’s said can’t be unsaid, what’s done can’t be undone and what white folk do, don’t concern you. We’re put here on this earth to work, that’s all. If your daddy and brothers would have been happy enough with that fact, they’d still be here today.

That Retta chooses to ignore that advice and become involved in the lives of the white people around her is both remarkable and heroic.

This is a story of women, Some are pitted against the men who control their worlds, and one thing clearly seen is that this is a man’s world and even the most powerful women have very little power outside their own selves.

Men can’t bear what women must. They jump to cry insanity as cause for a woman’s unhappiness; the utterance of the unutterable must be dementia. It’s just too much to consider otherwise.

What happens to these women, as they thread through each other’s lives, is pure magic. I learned to respect them all before the end of the book, and root for their determination not to give in to the harshness of the lives they led. There is so much more I want to say, but to do so would give away plot, and that is not my purpose.

Don’t miss this one! ( )
  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
This is a beautifully written story of three women from different backgrounds and how their lives intertwine. I loved the way the stories were woven into one another, seamlessly going along the timeline from one woman to the next.

The characters were raw, believable, and very unique one to another. As I read through I truly felt I was getting to know them and growing as they faced their individual challenges. And there are a lot of challenges facing these women. Highlights the importance of drawing together, forgiveness and acceptance across race, age, religion and other differences.

I laughed, I cried, I smiled but mostly I felt while reading this book. I was right alongside those women, hoping and fighting with then. This will definitely stay with me for a while. Highly recommended! ( )
  NicholeReadsWithCats | Jun 17, 2022 |
Told by three alternating women’s voices and set in the late 1929’s in SouthCarolina, three diverse women come together in a dramatic denouement. One woman is wife to a wealthy landowner, a second is her black kitchen cook and former nursemaid to her children, the third is a literally dirt-poor woman with an abusive husband and 4 daughters. I like the authenticity of the setting, the writing, the building suspense, and the fact that I had never read about this short time in history. ( )
  bereanna | Oct 4, 2021 |
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"It'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."--Publisher's description.

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