{"product_id":"2940169863048","title":"Calling Me Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eA soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser, Dorrie Curtis. It¿s a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mother in her thirties, to drop everything and drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati¿with no clear explanation why¿tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDorrie, fleeing problems of her own and curious whether she can unlock the secrets of Isabelle¿s guarded past, scarcely hesitates before agreeing, not knowing it will be a journey that changes both their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver the years, Dorrie and Isabelle have developed more than just a business relationship: they are friends. But Dorrie, fretting over the new man in her life and her teenage son¿s irresponsible choices, still wonders why Isabelle chose her.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsabelle confesses that, as a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor and the black son of her family¿s housekeeper¿in a town where blacks weren¿t allowed after dark. The tale of their forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences makes it clear Dorrie and Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance and that the history of Isabelle¿s first and greatest love just might help Dorrie find her own way.\u003cspan rel=\"pastemarkerend\" id=\"pastemarkerend7768\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104706281712,"sku":"2940169863048","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169863048_p0.jpg?v=1769901393","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169863048","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}