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Book Review of Calling Home

Calling Home
Calling Home
Author: Janna McMahan
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


This author's writing is very easy to read. I lived in a small TN town for high school, during the same time period. I guess the nicest thing that I can say is that I feel sorry for the author that she perceived her world as such. If you see men as uncontrollable animals and women as desperate without options, then this is the book for you.
As the mother to six sons, I felt so sorry for the teenage boys in this book and really disliked the daughter as much as the mom, by the end of the book. We lived in a town that would have made this one look like a metropolis, when my oldest was in her teens. I raised her to believe that the world is her oyster. This book is depressing and defeatist, what a downer