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Author Talk | Wanda M. Morris with Tayari Jones

"Anywhere You Run"

Wanda M. Morris will be in conversation with author Tayari Jones about her book "Anywhere You Run," a book about two sisters on the run - one from the law, the other from social shame.

Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris, takes place in the summer of 1964 in Jackson, Mississippi, when 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. Marigold, Violet’s older sister, has dreams of attending law school and works for the Mississippi Summer Project, but finds herself in a different kind of trouble than her sister. With both sisters having no other choice but to flee Jackson, they head in different directions to find safety. 

Books will be sold and available for signing from The Book Worm Bookstore. 

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Wanda M. Morris is the acclaimed author of All Her Little Secrets, which was named as one of the “Best Books of 2021” by Hudson Booksellers and selected as the #1 Top Pick for “Library Reads” by librarians across the country. It has been optioned for a one-hour limited series on Showtime.

Her book, Anywhere You Run, was named one of the Top Ten Crime Fiction Books for 2022 by The New York Times. Wanda’s upcoming book, What You Leave Behind, will be out in June 2024.

Tayari Jones is a New York Times bestselling author and is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage. Published in 2018, An American Marriage is an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list.

Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.

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