Call the Canaries Home

Name: Call the Canaries Home
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Laura Barrow
ISBN: 9798400115639

Author: Laura Barrow

Narrator: Amy Bentley, Sophie Amoss, Janet Metzger, Arielle DeLisle

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 07/01/2023

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Southern

Synopsis

Three estranged sisters reconnect in their Louisiana hometown to face an unresolved past in a heartfelt novel about family, grief, secrets, and forgiveness.Savannah was four years old when her twin sister, Georgia, went missing from their small Louisiana town, fracturing their family. Twenty-eight years later, Savannah convinces her estranged older sisters, Rayanne and Sue Ellen, to honor the pact they made as children and retrieve the time capsule they buried in their old backyard. But coming home means confronting old ghosts…and their stubborn grandmother, Meemaw.Sifting through the artifacts, they come across a photograph taken on the day Georgia disappeared and spot a familiar woman lingering in the background. While Sue Ellen and Rayanne want to move on with their lives, Savannah is determined to find the woman—and perhaps a clue to the past.When old tensions, rivalries, and memories resurface, the sisters must reconsider what they thought they knew about that fateful day, about each other, and about themselves. On their search to uncover what happened to Georgia, each of them will discover what Meemaw has known all along: family is everything.

About Laura Barrow

Laura Barrow is a former teacher and a lover of books. She received her bachelor’s degree in music education from Centenary College in northwest Louisiana, where she grew up. She now resides in northeast Texas, just outside Dallas, with her husband, three daughters, and a houseful of pets.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marsha on June 07, 2023

I really wanted to love this book, but after finishing the story, I felt somewhat misled by the narrative. While I understand it is the author's prerogative to determine how character arcs progress, by the time I got halfway through the novel, the interpersonal conflicts between the sisters tended t......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on June 09, 2023

4 charming stars for this small town Southern story! It’s impossible for me not to love a book with a main character grandmother named Meemaw! Unapologetic Meemaw was the heart of this story - I adored her! Meemaw raised her three young granddaughters after her daughter died. She embraces the girls w......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on February 26, 2023

I just finished this one and I had to RUN to tell y'all about it. 🙌🙌🙌🙌 First things first, thank you @laura.barrow.writer for the ARC of her DEBUT novel Call The Canaries Home! I was raised in the south (S/O Ladonia, AL), so it was not difficult at all to picture a small Loiusinana town and the chara......more

Goodreads review by Jenn Sheehy on July 16, 2023

Well I wanted to love this book. The writing wasn’t horrible. It started off with holding my interest, but it just slowly became about the sisters drama and little about the missing sister. Tidbits here and there about what could have happened, and then right at the end a tidy little bow of how to w......more

Goodreads review by Chloe on July 12, 2023

This book is set up to be a mystery and then hardly revolves around the mystery. The twist is lackluster at best. The conflicts between the characters are over the top and drawn out for way too long and then suddenly resolved throughout. Lots of random side stories that don’t really contribute? Idk......more

Quotes

“The concept of home, shaky at the beginning, is made whole again…A good addition to women’s fiction collections.” —Booklist“With lush prose and vivid description, Laura Barrow paints a picture of three sisters and their grandmother searching to uncover a secret from the past—and heal the wounds that have, in many ways, shaped their lives. Lyrical and lovely, Call the Canaries Home is a stunning debut from a standout new voice in women’s fiction. And Laura Barrow is officially on my list of must-read authors!” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Summer of Songbirds“For fans of small-town fiction and bighearted family comes a moving tale of forgiveness, loss, and secrets told through a cast of memorable characters. As three sisters move closer toward the truth behind their sibling’s disappearance, they discover deeper truths about themselves. Barrow crafts an impressive debut, culminating in a bittersweet yet satisfying conclusion. A touching, heartfelt read proving that family truly is everything.” —Rochelle B. Weinstein, bestselling author of When We Let Go