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Deb’s 2019 Year in Books
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Deb Spera
Goodreads Author
Born
in Louisville, Ky., The United States
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Wendell Berry, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Wallace Stegner,
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May 2018
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Call Your Daughter Home
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2018
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Hijas del sur
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Le Chant de nos filles
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Gratitude
It's a daunting thing to publish a novel. I wasn't sure what to expect. I had high hopes and low expectations, I've found life works better for me this way. What I've learned is that trying any creative venture offers many gifts along the way. This book is no exception The gifts this book has given me are numerous: new friends, connection with family I'd not had before, travel, readers who are...
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"Thank you, Deb Spera, for telling this story of strong rural women in South Carolina during the early 20th century. I have often wished for the skill to tell the stories of my Orangeburg County, SC, great-grandmothers from this era. This was a com..."
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Deb Spera
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Unicorn Day
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Best Picture Books
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Final Round
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2019 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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"“It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait.”
Brilliant opening line from a fantastic first novel from Deb Spera. This is a book about motherhood and sacrifice and what we do for our children. It is also about trifli..." Read more of this review » |
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Deb Spera
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Alpha Delta Pi Alumnae
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Deb Spera
answered a question about
Call Your Daughter Home:
Thank you so much for reading! I learned the song as a child. Go tell Aunt Rhody is how I remembered the song and what I researched it as. It does seem everyone has a variation of this song from their youth. Thanks again for reading and I'll be at...
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“Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you’re in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it’s over. I don’t know why I was surprised when the children grew up, but I was. I thought, in their youth, it would last forever. Now I see that it was my youth, not theirs that was speaking. The past is now and now and now.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“Your mama knew you ’fore you knew yourself. Mothers don’t leave. She’ll be back.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“Polite make-believe is weary business, and there is no one better at this than Southerners.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
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What shall we read in September, 2019? - Books published Post-1980
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Reading Glasses -...: Ep 104 - Empty Planets, Trains and Swamps and Deb Spera! | 2 | 42 | Jun 15, 2019 09:09AM | |
| Busy as a Bee Books: 06/11/19: Book News | 5 | 7 | Jun 17, 2019 12:10PM | |
| The Lost Challenges: June 2019 Scattergories | 73 | 53 | Jul 02, 2019 11:59AM | |
On the Southern L...:
Now accepting nominations for our September, 2019, Group Reads
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The Reading For P...:
Nominations for August 2019 Fiction Group Read Selections
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