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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Wanda M. Morris with Tayari Jones
LOCATION:Duluth Branch\nDuluth Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Wanda M. Morris will be in conversation with author Tayari Jon
 es about her book "Anywhere You Run\," a book about two sisters on the run
  - one from the law\, the other from social shame. \n.\nhttps://gwinnettpl
 .libnet.info/event/9841207
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><em>Anywhere You Run</em> by Wanda M. Morr
 is\, takes place in the summer of 1964 in Jackson\, Mississippi\, when thr
 ee innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippi
 ans secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop\, twenty-one-year-old 
 Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she&rsquo\;s ever been 
 in her life. Marigold\, Violet&rsquo\;s older sister\, has dreams of atten
 ding law school and works for the Mississippi Summer Project\, but finds h
 erself in a different kind of trouble than her sister. With both sisters h
 aving no other choice but to flee Jackson\, they head in different directi
 ons to find safety.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Books will be sold and available for si
 gning from <a href="https://thebookwormonline.com/">The Book Worm Bookstor
 e</a>.&nbsp\;<img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/g
 winnettpl/book_worm_bookstore.png" width="156" height="96" alt="" style="f
 loat: right\; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px\;" /></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><sup><stron
 g>Registration is recommended. Registration closes at the start of the pro
 gram.&nbsp\;</strong></sup></p>\n<p><span style="color: #999999\;"><em>Pre
 sented by Adult Services</em></span></p>\n<hr />\n<p><em><strong>Wanda M. 
 Morris&nbsp\;</strong></em>is the acclaimed author of <em>All Her Little S
 ecrets\,</em> which was named as one of the &ldquo\;Best Books of 2021&rdq
 uo\; by Hudson Booksellers and selected as the #1 Top Pick for &ldquo\;Lib
 rary Reads&rdquo\; by librarians across the country. It has been optioned 
 for a one-hour limited series on Showtime.</p>\n<p>Her book\, <em>Anywhere
  You Run</em>\, was named one of the Top Ten Crime Fiction Books for 2022 
 by <em>The New York Times</em>.&nbsp\;Wanda&rsquo\;s upcoming book\, <em>W
 hat You Leave Behind</em>\, will be out in June 2024.</p>\n<p><em></em></p
 >\n<p><em><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/edi
 tor/gwinnettpl/Tayari_Jones.jpg" width="177" height="117" alt="" style="fl
 oat: left\; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" /></strong><strong>Tayari Jones</
 strong></em> is a <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author and is the au
 thor of four novels\, most recently <em>An American Marriage</em>. Publish
 ed in 2018\, <em>An American Marriage</em> is an Oprah&rsquo\;s Book Club 
 Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama&rsquo\;s summer reading list.<
 /p>\n<p>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 Wr
 iting at Emory University.</p>\nhttps://gwinnettpl.libnet.info/event/98412
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