![]() ![]() “We’re talking about something that takes place nearly 60 years ago but seems oddly deja vu to what’s going on today. “Obviously it deals with racism, but it also deals with women’s rights and a woman’s right to govern their own bodies,” she says. While the plot reads like a cat-and-mouse thriller, Morris says the book also confronts some serious themes that still resonate today. “What the sisters don’t realize is there’s a man from Mississippi who knows exactly what happened and what Violet did, and he’s hot on the trail with a real unique motive for finding the two women,” Morris says, speaking by phone from her home in Atlanta. When news of the murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to take off too and heads north to what she hopes will be a better life. Dutiful Marigold, the rule follower, is in a different sort of trouble - she’s pregnant and unmarried. Violet, the wild child, flees to a small rural Georgia town after she’s brutally assaulted and kills her attacker in self-defense. All Her Little Secrets William Morrow & Company, Novemwas her debut novel. ![]() The book, set in Jackson, Mississippi, at the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement, follows sisters Violet and Marigold as they’re forced to leave home for different reasons. Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders over 10. Morris’ new historical thriller, “ Anywhere You Run,” out Oct. ![]() In the Jim Crow South, two Black sisters are on the lam in Wanda M. ![]()
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