![]() ![]() In the book, Gertrude is a mother of four with an abusive husband Retta is a first-generation freed slave still employed by the Coles family and Annie is the matriarch of the Coles family and owner of Branchville Sewing Circle. It was her mother’s mother, Mamaw, who raised them “like crops.” Her three female characters are based on the women in her family. ![]() Spera, who was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and currently lives in Los Angeles, set her novel in South Carolina as the region recovers from the infamous boll weevil infestation of the 1920s. ![]() Called an “exhilarating and important book” by Robert Olen Butler and “a bold and mesmerizing debut set in a time and place lost to history” by Natashia Deon, Deb Spera’s Call Your Daughter Home is quickly making a name for itself in the ranks of Southern literature. ![]()
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