Teresa Davis
Teresa Davis is an East Tennessee author whose memoir draws on her experiences growing up in rural Appalachia amid poverty, family dysfunction, and adversity. Through the Somewhere to Call Home series, she shares a deeply personal story of resilience, faith, survival, and the lifelong search for belonging. Her work preserves the voices, traditions, and realities of Appalachian life while offering hope to those who have faced hardship.
The first volume of her trilogy, Somewhere to Call Home, will be released on November 15, 2026, by Parson’s Porch Books.
The official release date is November 15, 2026. The early price is 25.95 plus shipping.
Part of the proceeds will be shared with unhoused people in Cleveland, Tennessee, through Books2Bread.
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In the mountains of East Tennessee, Teresa Davis grew up in a world few people ever see, and even fewer survive unscathed.
Raised in crushing poverty, surrounded by violence, neglect, and instability, Teresa’s childhood was marked by hardship at every turn. Her family lived without many of the necessities most people take for granted, relying on faith, ingenuity, and determination to make it through each day. Beneath the struggles, however, was a sensitive child searching for love, acceptance, and a place where she truly belonged.
Through vivid memories of mountain life, family traditions, church experiences, childhood adventures, and painful trauma, Somewhere to Call Home: Volume One offers an unflinching look at a young girl’s journey through a world filled with both beauty and heartbreak. From snowy mornings and camping in the wilderness to difficult family relationships and the loneliness of feeling unseen, Teresa recounts her story with honesty, courage, and compassion.
More than a memoir of survival, this is the beginning of a lifelong search for identity, healing, and home. Raw, heartfelt, and deeply moving, Somewhere to Call Home is a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the hope that can endure even in the darkest circumstances.
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Teresa Davis is an East Tennessee author whose memoir draws on her experiences growing up in rural Appalachia amid poverty, family dysfunction, and adversity. Through the Somewhere to Call Home series, she shares a deeply personal story of resilience, faith, survival, and the lifelong search for belonging. Her work preserves the voices, traditions, and realities of Appalachian life while offering hope to those who have faced hardship.
Somewhere to Call Home:
Volume Two – The Middle Years
In Somewhere to Call Home: The Middle Years, Volume Two, Teresa Davis continues the unforgettable true story of a young girl caught between foster homes, family turmoil, and a desperate search for belonging.
As she moves through her teenage years, she faces neglect, hunger, humiliation, and the heartbreak of feeling unwanted by the very people she longs to love her. Foster homes promise safety but often bring new challenges. Social workers, counselors, and adults who should protect her frequently fail to see the pain hidden beneath her quiet exterior.
Yet amid the darkness, moments of kindness shine through. Friendships, faith, and an unyielding determination to survive become lifelines as she struggles to understand herself, her family, and the mysterious experiences that seem to follow her wherever she goes.
Raw, honest, and deeply moving, Somewhere to Call Home: The Middle Years, Volume Two is a powerful story of resilience, spiritual searching, and the enduring hope that somewhere in the world there is a place to belong, a place to heal, and a place to finally call home.
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Teresa Davis is an East Tennessee author whose memoir writing draws from her experiences growing up in rural Appalachia amidst poverty, family dysfunction, and adversity. Through the Somewhere to Call Home series, she shares a deep personal story of resilience, faith, survival, and the lifelong search for belonging. Her work preserves the voices, traditions, and realities of Appalachian life while offering hope to those who have faced hardship.
Somewhere to Call Home
Volume Three – The Later Years
In Somewhere to Call Home: The Later Years, Volume Three, Teresa Davis continues her deeply personal journey into adulthood, where survival is no longer the only challenge. Now the search turns inward.
Haunted by a painful childhood, crushing poverty, loneliness, and questions that refuse to go away, Heidi struggles to find her identity in a world that has constantly told her who she should be. As she works long nights, battles despair, forms unexpected friendships, and searches for stability, she finds herself drawn into a profound spiritual quest.
Through encounters with compassionate friends, moments of grace, mysterious experiences, heartbreak, and hard-earned lessons, Heidi wrestles with faith, doubt, self-worth, and the longing to know God for herself rather than through the voices of others.
Raw, honest, and deeply reflective, this moving memoir reveals one woman's determination to rise above abandonment, fear, and suffering in her search for truth, belonging, and a place to finally call home.
Volume Three chronicles a remarkable season of transformation, where the darkest questions of the soul begin to give way to hope, purpose, and the possibility of healing.
Teresa Davis is an East Tennessee author whose memoir writing draws from her experiences growing up in rural Appalachia amidst poverty, family dysfunction, and adversity. Through the Somewhere to Call Home series, she shares a deep personal story of resilience, faith, survival, and the lifelong search for belonging. Her work preserves the voices, traditions, and realities of Appalachian life while offering hope to those who have faced hardship.