![]() ![]() Violet and her sister, Marigold, carry on. Her mother and father have both recently died and her sister Rose died only a few years earlier under circumstances we are not told about for a long time, although we are told that Violet blames herself. Her life is at a spectacularly low point. The protagonist, Violet Richards, 22, is a young black woman in Jackson, Mississippi. These are the “given,” what Henry James would call the done, that which we must accept if we are to go forward, but they are a lot to lift. The events that initiate the action of this novel happen in the first few pages. That killing lurks in the background of the action for the entire novel, motivating some of the action but never really the center of the black characters’ concerns. ![]() “Anywhere You Run” opens with the killing of the three civil rights workers in June of 1964 in Neshoba County, Mississippi. ![]()
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