I won for my bookclub to read. Copy 4 that I will read then RABCK.

Amazon Editorial Review:

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.

I haven't read a book, in quite a while, that drew me in so quickly and where I wanted to beat some of the characters for their stupidity and racism.

I am only 1/4 through this book and I think it will most likely be one of my best reads this year. The writing is phenomenal and flows so easily.
Many of the interactions and some of the language used make me extremely uncomfortable. (Picture Paula Dean and her inappropriate comments that were common place ~cringe~ in the early part of the 1900's.). But overall it is a wonderfully told story.

Almost 1AM and I couldn't put this book down until I finished it. I cried through the last few chapters.
Mom is reading this copy next and if she finishes it before returning home i will offer as a ray otherwise I will try to get one of the other copies I received to do so.
Best book I've read in years.

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I just received the book and started reading it. I'm loving it so far!

I absolutely loved this book, I couldn't put it down. I actually cried a few times while I read it. Kibler's execution and writing style is just so captivating and touching. I hope the next person who reads it will enjoy it as much as I do :)
Controlled release to Kairos15!