Calling me home by julie kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s kentucky with an unlikely modernday friendship. Calling me home, which is kiblers debut novel and inspired by events in her family, revolves around the relationship between an 89yearold woman named isabelle mcallister and her hairdresser, a. Calling me home by julie kibler is a soaring debut interweaving. Kiblers unsentimental eye makes the problems faced unflinchingly by isabelle and dorrie ring true. I closed the final page with a smile and a tear, humbled and eager to embrace life. Black and white, young and old, searching and missing and finding in each other a special understanding, companionship, and love, these characters are real and addictive.
Calling me home by julie kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking. When calling me home was chosen as she reads book selection for february i couldnt have been happier. In calling me home by julie kibler, eightynineyearold isabelle mcallister has a favor to ask her hairdresser dorrie curtis. Calling me home by julie kibler is a beautiful debut novel telling the story of a forbidden love in 1930s kentucky with a modernday friendship. Calling me home is a tenderly wrought story of love and secrets, heartbreak and healing, and the remarkable power of friendship to heal two women who find each other across the lines of time, generation, and race.
Julie kibler is the bestselling author of home for erring and outcast girls and calling me home, which was an indienext list pick, target club pick, and ladies home journal book club pick, published in fifteen languages. Eighty nine year old isabelle mcallister has a favour to ask her hairdresser dorrie curtis. While there are only two narrators, at times calling me home reads as if there are three distinct voicesbecause isabelles younger voice recounting her forbidden love with a black man in the racially tense 1940s, is often measured, lacking the present day cantankerous verve promised in her selfintroduction. Eightynineyearold isabelle mcallister has a favor to ask her hairdresser dorrie curtis. Isabelle wants dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in arlington. Calling me home by julie kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s kentucky with an unlikely modernday. Calling me home is a story about love in its many incarnationsin romance, friendships, and families. Kibler illuminates racial tensions many of us dont realize still exist in this country, and shows how small acts of faith can make big inroads to acceptance. Calling me home tells two stories, that of isabelle mcallister and of dorrie curtis.