Calling me home

Description:

A debut novel interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship. Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis: drop everything and drive from Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. Tomorrow. Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own, agrees. It's a journey that changes both their lives, as she learns Isabelle's tale of a forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences-- a tale that just might help Dorrie find her own way.

subjects: Interracial dating,  Fiction,  Self-realization in women,  Female friendship,  Older women,  Secrets,  Automobile travel,  Amerikanisches Englisch,  Fiction, romance, historical,  Friendship, fiction,  Dating (social customs), fiction,  Kentucky, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Large type books,  Fiction, romance, historical, general