Julie Kibler

Perfect for fans of The Help In a time of hate, would you stand up for love? Shalerville, Kentucky, 1939. A world where black maids and handymen are trusted to raise white children and tend to white houses, but from which they are banished after dark. Sixteen-year-old Isabelle McAllister, born into wealth and privilege, finds her ordered life turned upside down when she becomes attracted to Robert, the ambitious black son of her family's housekeeper. Before long Isabelle and Robert are crossing extraordinary, dangerous boundaries and falling deeply in love. Many years later, eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle will travel from her home in Arlington, Texas, to Ohio for a funeral. With Isabelle is her hairstylist and friend, Dorrie Curtis -- a black single mother with her own problems. Along the way, Isabelle will finally reveal to Dorrie the truth of her painful past: a tale of forbidden love, the consequences of which will resound for decades ...

Vlastní rodinnou historií inspirovaný debut americké autorky, vyprávějící neobyčejně srdceryvný příběh osudové, ale zapovězené lásky, předsudků a hanby. Osmdesátiletá Isabel poprosí svou oblíbenou kadeřnici, aby ji odvezla do Texasu na pohřeb. Po cestě začne vzpomínat na život, který prožila. Všechno hezké začalo v roce 1939, kdy se šestnáctiletá dcera zámožného lékaře na večírku seznamuje s bratrem své černošské služebné…