Anywhere You Run, Morris - B+

                     This is a fascinating novel set in 1964 and featuring a family from Jackson, MS. When it begins, Marigold and her younger sister, Violet, are sorting out their lives in the aftermath of the deaths of their sister and parents. Life is suffocatingly dreadful for people of color in Mississippi. Everyone is looking for the three Freedom Riders who have just gone missing. After a local white thug rapes Violet, she shoots him and leaves town in a hurry. When Marigold's boss from NY leaves for the north after she tells him she's pregnant, she too leaves. Their lives criss-cross again in the south where Jim Crow and hatred still dominate. This a very powerful treatment of racism, a deft thriller, but one with a slight stumble in the end. Nonetheless, well worth it.