Name: We Are Called to Rise
ISBN: 9781476738970

Laura McBride

An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident. A first novel.

A Novel

We Are Called to Rise

Georgia Carr

Laura McBride's debut (!!!) novel has touched me so deeply. I want her to write a sequel, a fifteen book series about these characters. I love them all so much, I feel like they are my friends now. I just want to re-read this over and over to stay with these people. Bashkim and Avis and Roberta and Luis... They are written so well, so individually, so thoughtfully. 

Also, there's a page that changed the whole book. I stopped reading and gasped and screamed a bit and then jumped around my living room. 

Laura McBride, you are a literary genius and I would pay you to write books for me every day.

Michael Hessling

Heartbreaking story, but ultimately the four narrators all sounded the same. Las Vegas, the city, was a fifth character, and I loved that part.

We Are Called to Rise A Novel

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