The release date for the English version of 'Calling Me Home' by
Julie Kibler is Feb 2013. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Julie Kibler's stunning first novel, Calling Me Home, masterfully combines the tale of a tragic, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with the unusual friendship of today.
Isabelle McAllister, 89, has a request for her hairstylist Dorrie Curtis. It's significant. In order to get her from her Arlington, Texas, home to a funeral in Cincinnati, Isabelle needs Dorrie, a black single mother in her thirties, to drop everything and drive. without a clear justification. Next day.
With her own issues to escape and a desire to discover the truth about Isabelle's hidden history, Dorrie quickly agrees, not realising that this would be a voyage that transforms their lives.
Dorrie and Isabelle's connection has grown beyond professional dealings over time. They are companions. However, Dorrie continues to question why Isabelle choose her, worrying about the new guy in her life and her adolescent son's careless decisions.
In a place where black people were not permitted after dark, Isabelle acknowledges that as a stubborn teenager in 1930s Kentucky, she fell madly in love with Robert Prewitt, a black housekeeper's son and aspiring doctor. It's obvious that Dorrie and Isabelle are going to a very important event from the account of their forbidden connection and its terrible outcomes, and that maybe learning about Isabelle's past love may help Dorrie discover her own path.