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CANCELLED: Booklastic Book Club: Call Your Daughter Home

March 25, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Book cover featuring trees on the bank of a river

This program has been cancelled.

We’re not fantastic…we’re booklastic!

Booklastic meets the last Wednesday of every month. Our March read is Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera.

It’s 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles, influential plantation proprietors who once owned her family. Annie is the matriarch of the Coles family and must come to terms with the terrible truth that has torn her family apart.

These three women seemingly have nothing in common, yet as they unite to stand up to the terrible injustices that have long plagued the small town, they find strength in the bond that ties women together. 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.

Call or stop by our Circulation Desk to sign up!

Plot summary adapted from the publisher. This month’s Booklastic is made possible by The Friends of the North Shore Library at Princeville.

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Details

Date:
March 25, 2020
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Event Category:

Island

Recommended for

Adults

Branch

Kauai – Princeville
4343 Emmalani Dr.
Princeville, HI 96722 United States
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Phone:
808-826-4310

In State observance of the Memorial Day holiday, all public libraries will be closed from May 25 to 27, 2024.