Running to Fall, Kalisha Buckhanon
Running to Fall, Kalisha Buckhanon
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Running to Fall

Author: Kalisha Buckhanon

Narrator: Shari Peele

Unabridged: 9 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/06/2022

Synopsis

A suspenseful, truthful look into the lives of women who drink to survive or just to cope, with a provocative narrator who carries readers along an emotional journey to acceptance.

Tragedy and Victor Powell have moved to the desirable but dark Grayson Glens enclave of dream homes just outside of Chicago. Stressed urbanites, they’ve got to live large in real life to stay large online. With only a few blacks in their elite
gated community, they settle in but never quite feel at home. Then, a missing young black woman floats up in the Grayson River.

Is the spirit of the mysterious scarlet-lettered woman, Raven McCoy, haunting Grayson during the pandemic?

Tragedy, haunted by her own difficult checkered past versus Victor’s sterling history, thinks so. The pressure to manage his image for profit drives her to drink, even when his trying teen daughter visits. But Victor’s ex-wife, the Grayson gossip
and a female detective all close in on Tragedy’s unraveling life. Then Tragedy spirals into addiction, past secrets and the local women’s fight for justice for a woman.

About Kalisha Buckhanon

Kalisha Buckhanon’s first novel, Upstate, won an American Library Association Alex Award and was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Debut Fiction. Terry McMillan selected her to receive the first Terry McMillan Young Author Award in 2006. A recipient of a 2001 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship and an Andrew Mellon Fellow, Buckhanon frequently teaches writing and speaks throughout the country. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from New School University in New York City, and both a B.A. and a M.A. in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. She was born in 1977 in Kankakee, Illinois.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Francis on November 18, 2022

This book book was a page turner, it touched on a lot of what’s going on, and I will leave that right there, lol. Some topics can be triggering, but it’s done so well. The book was a slow burn though but don’t give up this one is a gem.......more

Goodreads review by AALBC.com on November 15, 2022

Running to Fall is a layered, nuanced, look at alcoholism and how it can affect the lives of an upper-middle-class family. The story is wrapped in a murder mystery making it even more compelling Running to Fall is so good I decided to publish it!......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on November 15, 2023

This book is hard to rate. Things I enjoyed - the realistic portrayal of poverty, foster care in the USA, how race impacts police follow-up on missing young women, and the impact of trauma along with alcoholism. Things I did not like - the constant switching from 3rd person to 1st person POV (super......more

Goodreads review by Carole on August 20, 2023

This is a very American story of trauma and survival. Compellingly paced, inventively written, the novel tells the story of a young woman who renames herself from “Hope” to “Tragedy” - a flawed, fascinating, magnificent character. I sometimes find flawed characters simply irritating, but not this on......more

Goodreads review by Brianna on January 16, 2023

Man, I really wanted to like this book. The plot is great conceptually, the characters are interesting, the cover is STUNNING… but yikes, this was just not good. As someone else put it, this book reads like a drunk person wrote it. Half the sentences make no sense, it contradicts itself from page to......more

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