In You Can’t Outrun Your Roots, McGee Mathews crafts a second-chance romance between two women whose lives have diverged dramatically since high school. Gloria Robinson has spent decades building a permaculture farm on reclaimed South Carolina cotton fields, channeling her energy into social justice work and sustainable agriculture. Now widowed and worn down by political setbacks, she’s resigned to remaining alone in her small Southern town. Anna May Walker, meanwhile, has constructed a superficial life in Washington D.C., deliberately disconnected from her Southern roots and still haunted by guilt over how she treated Gloria years earlier. When Anna May returns home after her father’s death—ostensibly to convince her mother to relocate—the two women are thrown back together, especially when Anna May is assigned to write a story about Gloria’s farm. The novel examines whether old attraction can overcome decades of separate lives, different values, and unresolved past wounds, all within the inescapable proximity of small-town Southern life.
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| ISBN: 9781952270826 |
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| Genre: Romance |
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| Publication Date: 2022-09-02 |
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| Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing |
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| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 294 |
| Rating: 4 Good |
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| Book_ID: 105259 |