Call Your Daughter Home by Deb SperaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Wonderful debut of a very dramatic and atmospheric Southern fiction drama! Narrated by three different women, but their stories are woven together brilliantly. The plantation wife, Annie, is posh, privileged and horrified when she learns her husband's dark secret. Retta, their African-American cook, is a former slave, but it's 1924, and she sure seems like she's still a slave, thanks to the way it was in South Carolina. Gertrude is the poor white abused woman who needs Rhetta's help and eventually works for the plantation matron.
You'll breeze through this because you'll want to know what happens to these women. Great characterization by Spera--I felt connected to all three women and cared for them.
Triggers for abuse--both domestic and child sexual.
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