all her little secrets wanda morris goodreads

Ellice is the only Black person at the top of the company and Michael didn't commit suicide he was murdered. Before she's had time to grieve - she's promoted to general counsel and given Michael's office and a significant raise. Ellice finds the body, but runs away and lets someone else find and report it. Then, Michael kills himself in his office and everything changes. Now, she has a high-paying job in Atlanta as a corporate attorney at Houghton Transportation Company.Įverything is going great and Ellice even has time for a fun fling with Michael, a married man who also happens to be her boss and Houghton's general counsel. Despite all that, she managed to turn her life around by moving away to go to Coventry Academy in Virginia - and then getting a law degree from Yale. Her father abandoned her pregnant mother, they were poor, her brother was always getting in trouble, her mom had a drinking problem, and Ellice got pregnant as a teenager. It's also a story about how we can move away from home and try to change who we are, but we're almost always unable to escape the past.Įllice Littlejohn grew up with her mom and younger brother Sam in the small town of Chillicothe, Georgia.

Morris' All Her Little Secrets is a carefully constructed thriller wrapped in a narrative about racism, gentrification, and being the only Black person in an all-white environment. All Her Little Secrets: A Novel, Wanda M.

All her little secrets wanda morris goodreads