Wanda M. Morris. (2022). Anywhere You Run: A Novel. HarperCollins.

Wanda M. Morris. 2022. Anywhere You Run: A Novel. HarperCollins.

Wanda M. Morris, Anywhere You Run: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2022.

Wanda M. Morris. Anywhere You Run: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2022.

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     Wanda M. Morris is the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets, which has been praised by Karin Slaughter as "brilliantly nuanced" and reviewed by The Boston Globe, LA Times, New York Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Seattle Times, and South Florida Sun Sentinel among others. Her second novel, Anywhere You Run, won the Anthony award for Best Historical Novel of 2023 and was longlisted for the prestigious Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Prize. She is married, the mother of three, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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As Seen on The TODAY Show!

Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReads

From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country . . . but can they escape the secrets they left behind?

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 . . .

"Anywhere You Run had me hooked from the first page... It's a novel both tender and ferocious—an absolute stunner." —Lou Berney, Edgar Award–winning author of November Road

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     "The immensely talented Wanda M. Morris delivers an unflinching exploration of the pain and injustice of the Jim Crow South, a moving tale of sisterly devotion, and a riveting thriller all in one stellar novel. Morris writes with deep empathy and keen insight about the choices we make when we're out of choices, and how when we dig deep we find a strength and resilience we didn't know was there. Wise, riveting, and full of surprises, Anywhere You Run will keep you up past your bedtime and stay with you long after the book is closed." — Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

     "From page one, you are completely gripped, you are in these two protagonists' head. Wonderful read, I read it in one reading." — Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on The TODAY Show

     "A stunning thriller and a stunning work of historical fiction. Anywhere You Run is riveting, touching and terrifying. Wanda M. Morris is a ferociously talented writer." — Gilly Macmillan, New York Times bestselling author of The Long Weekend

     "The suspense will set your heart thumping, the story will break it. A compelling thriller with powerful historical detail." — J.D. Barker, New York Times bestselling author of A Caller's Game

     "Anywhere You Run had me hooked from the first page. Wanda Morris brings 1964 to vivid, richly-textured life and populates it with unforgettable characters. It's a novel both tender and ferocious – an absolute stunner." — Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of November Road

     "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

     "So powerful! Though she's writing about the past, Wanda Morris tells a story that feels incredibly relevant today. With its menacing characters and emotionally wrenching situations, Anywhere You Run made me hold my breath for two wonderfully well-drawn heroines." — Rachel Howzell Hall, bestselling author of These Toxic Things

     "Anywhere You Run is a gripping crime novel centered around a cat-and-mouse chase featuring characters I came to love. It's also a riveting, moving, and deeply American story about the strength of sisters and the power of redemption. I couldn't put this one down." — Jess Lourey, bestselling author of The Quarry Girls

     "A propulsive and immersive journey among the treacherous landscape of America in the early 1960s told through the eyes of black women. With unflinching prose, Wanda M. Morris weaves a story of love, loss, and unimaginable strength." — Catherine Adel West, author of The Two Lives of Sara and Saving Ruby King

     "Two novels into her career, Wanda M. Morris has established herself among the biggest risk-takers in the crime genre." — New York Times

     "As the sisters try to outrun their pasts, the fast-paced narrative makes for heart-in-your-throat reading; the reasons they must flee feel, unfortunately, all too current." — Washington Post

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     After debuting to uproarious acclaim with All Her Little Secrets, Morris offers a tale of two Black sisters fleeing 1964 Mississippi in different directions, Violet after she kills a white man who attacks her and Marigold because she is unmarried and pregnant. Alas, someone sinister is tracking them both. With a 100,000-copy paperback and a 30,000-copy hardcover first printing.

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from August 29, 2022
     The notorious 1964 murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi provides the backdrop for Morris’s stunning sophomore novel (after 2021’s All Her Little Secrets), which revolves around two Black sisters’ relationship while exploring racism, family, and small-town sensibilities. The quiet life of Violet Richards and her older sister, Marigold, ends when Violet kills the white man who raped her. Knowing that as a Black woman in the Jim Crow South she won’t be treated fairly, Violet sneaks out of Jackson, Miss., with her wealthy white boyfriend before abandoning him in Alabama to catch a Greyhound bus that takes her to Chillicothe, Ga. Meanwhile, Marigold, who dreams of becoming a lawyer, works for the Mississippi Summer Project to help Blacks register to vote. She ends up in Ohio after quickly marrying her dim-witted boyfriend, having become pregnant by another man. The suspense ramps up as powerful forces target each sister because she unwittingly possesses damaging evidence. Meticulous research about the era informs the gripping plot, which alternates between each sister’s point of view. Finely sculpted characters and crisp dialogue help make this a standout. Morris is a writer to watch. Agent: Lori Galvin, Aevitas Creative Management.

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     Starred review from January 1, 2023
     Two sisters find danger when they try to run from their secrets in the civil rights-era South. Violet Richards is in trouble. As a young Black woman in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, she knows she's courting danger by dating a White man, a rich man's son she doesn't really love. Then another White man rapes her. The police don't care. When the rapist threatens her again, she kills him and goes on the run, unknowingly taking something of her boyfriend's that turns out to be a powder keg. Violet's younger sister, Marigold, also has a boyfriend she doesn't love, and a secret lover as well. The lover abandons her when she tells him she's pregnant, just about the time police come to the family home looking for Violet. Marigold sees little reason to stay in Jackson--the oldest Richards sister, Rose, died years before in an accident, and both of their parents have died recently. So Marigold gives in to her boyfriend's marriage proposal and plan to move to Cleveland. Neither sister's escape goes as expected, especially after Violet's abandoned beau hires a man named Mercer Buggs to find her. Buggs is an inept detective, but he manages to put both Violet and Marigold in mortal danger. As their stories converge in the small town of Chillicothe, Georgia, Morris builds the tension, alternating the narrative among Violet, Marigold, and Buggs. She deftly ties the sisters' situation to a real-life tragedy of the civil rights movement--the murders of Freedom Summer volunteers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner--and to the inherent violence of the racism behind it. Despite a somewhat rushed ending, this thriller offers complex characters and a well-crafted portrait of time and place. Tense plotting and an authentic historical setting enhance a thriller about racial violence.

     COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Starred review from September 15, 2022
     Morris follows the highly acclaimed All Her Little Secrets (2021) with a stunning novel about two Black sisters on the run, one victimized by an egregious crime and both guilty of simply wanting better lives for themselves. It is the summer of 1964 in Jackson, Mississippi, and the backlash to federal legislation meant to help Black people has often made their lives worse. Violet Richards has killed the white man who raped her and run away with her wealthy boyfriend, who is also white. She manages to steal his wallet and get on a bus to DC. Panicked after a Black man is beaten and pulled off the bus by police, Violet leaves the vehicle, too, and settles in Chillicothe, Georgia, under a new name. Meanwhile, Violet's older sister, Marigold Richards, is abandoned in Jackson by the man who made her pregnant and leaves for Cleveland, but she is pursued by a dangerous man willing to do anything for the money he needs to save his own family. These parallel stories of hiding and pursuit, which lead to an amazing conclusion, are told in the different but equally compelling voices of Violet and Marigold, each filled with its own fear and pain. This riveting and moving novel, with echoes of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, is highly recommended for fans of suspense and women's fiction.

     COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReads

From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country . . . but can they escape the secrets they left behind?

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....

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