Julie Kibler crea narrativas que profundizan en la complejidad de las conexiones humanas y la fuerza perdurable del espíritu. Su obra a menudo explora temas de pertenencia, pérdida y la búsqueda de un hogar, imbuyendo sus historias con una profunda perspicacia psicológica. La poderosa y conmovedora prosa de Kibler resuena en los lectores por su cruda honestidad y profunda empatía. Su estilo distintivo es a la vez cautivador e introspectivo, invitando a los lectores a contemplar el intrincado panorama del corazón humano.
Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis: drop everything and drive from Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. Tomorrow. Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own, agrees. It''s a journey that changes both their lives, as she learns Isabelle''s tale of a forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences-- a tale that just might help Dorrie find her own way.
Follows the deep friendship between two women at an early twentieth-century rehabilitation home for cast-out single mothers, and the reclusive librarian who discovers their story a century later.