Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler is a novel about a secret relationship between a young white girl and a black boy, deeply in love in 1930’s Kentucky. This is the story of their forbidden relationship and its lifelong consequences.

Kibler writes in present day and the past, speaking  from the voices of two women, young and old, each struggling with their own demons, traveling on a road trip together to a funeral. The characters and the story are both compelling and I was hooked from the start.

This is a tragic story that tells of our shameful history and how racism still exists in some parts of the country. A worthwhile read.