I cannot recommend it strongly enough.' -Mark Bowden, New York Times and International bestselling author of Black Hawk Down 'Call Your Daughter Home is a stunning and welcome addition to Southern Literature. She channels the women in this gripping novel - Gertrude, Oretta, and Annie - like someone who has lived inside them. Call Your Daughter Home is an exhilarating and important book.' - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 'Deb Spera is an amazing talent, and a powerful female voice.

These three women, in their fierce struggle for values and self, speak to those struggles in all of us, men and women both. This book kept me up late and stayed with me long after I closed the final page.' -Lisa Wingate, New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours 'Deb Spera is a master of voice, a master of deep-diving access to the roiling depths of human identity. Authentic, gripping, a page-turner, yet also a novel filled with language that begs to be savored.

'A mesmerizing Southern tale, Call Your Daughter Home follows three women intertwined in struggle, unlikely friendship, and ultimately, redemption. '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.' - Lisa Wingate, New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours 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. Featured on Oprah's Summer Reading List 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.

Author deb spera