Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship. Eighty-nine-year-old isabelle mcallister has a favor ...Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship. Eighty-nine-year-old isabelle mcallister has a favor to ask her hairdresser dorrie curtis. It's a big one.