Calling Me Home, by Julie Kibler

Thought provoking conflict of racial prejudices. Partly set in 1939 and partly current. Isabelle, an aging White Texan with no family, asks her Black friend Dorrie, who is also her long time hair-dresser, to drive her to a funeral in Ohio. Along the way Isabelle tells her life's story. While Dorrie is worried about current troubles with her son and with her maybe boyfriend, back home. Isabelle had a love of her life, but it was forbidden. She prepares to work around it and they have heartbreak after heartbreak. Dorrie is afraid to reach out to her current boyfriend because she fears he will prove to be as unreliable as her ex-husband and other men she has known. Have tissues ready for the last few chapters. A 9 out of 10.