Anywhere You Run
Book Feature - Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris
HBL Note: Wanda M. Morris shook up the legal thriller genre with her award-winning debut All Her Little Secrets, which was named an Indie Next Pick, Indigo Staff Pick in Canada, Powell's Pick of the Season, a Hudson airport selection, Library Reads Pick, and was serialized by Entertainment Weekly. Wanda M. Morris is definitely an author to watch, and lucky for us she’s out with her sophomore novel, ANY WHERE YOU RUN. It is gripping, It is suspenseful. And it combines thriller with history in such a relevant way with a story about two black sisters who run away following the murder of a white man in 1960s Jim Crow Mississippi. Scroll down to read more.
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"Evocative, heartbreaking, and utterly life-changing. With the ground-breaking Anywhere You Run, Wanda Morris blooms into literary fiction, bringing readers a chillingly knowing and brilliantly upsetting novel of the 60s. With no holds barred and no emotion unplumbed, the talented Morris writes a tale of two sisters that's unflinchingly raw and passionately authentic. We cannot turn away from the story, or from the immersive settings, or from Morris's skilled depiction of tragedy, triumph, and the struggle to love and survive." — Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of Her Perfect Life
Book Feature - Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris
Book Feature - Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris
From the publisher:
It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been in her life. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. But with the color of Violet’s skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes. But desperation and fear leads her to hide out in the small rural town of Chillicothe, Georgia, unaware that danger may be closer than she thinks.
Back in Jackson, Marigold, Violet’s older sister, has dreams of attending law school. Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, she has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote. But Marigold is in a different kind of trouble: she’s pregnant and unmarried. After news of the murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to flee Jackson too. She heads North seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. But has she made a terrible choice that threatens her life and that of her unborn child?
Two sisters on the run—one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don’t realize is that there’s a man hot on their trail. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him . . .
