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A stunning tour de force following three fierce, unforgettable Southern women in the years leading up to the Great Depression
Told in the pitch-perfect voices of Gertrude, Retta and Annie, Call Your Daughter Home is an audacious, timeless story about the power of family, deep-buried secrets and the ferocity of motherhood.
When three are together there is always an odd man out,
My thoughts exactly
Why does birth feel impossible when it is upon you? You forget in the throes of all that pain the reward that’s coming.
Many settings in this book exist today. Shake Rag is a small black neighborhood in Branchville.
Branchville, or the Branch as it was originally called, was home to three Native American camps, and named for a branch in a trail under an old oak tree where traders came to exchange goods. That trail was so well situated that the Branchville Railroad, built in 1828, runs along those same paths.
Camp is based on Indian Fields Campground in St. George, which has been in existence at this location since 1848.
