![]() In the current day, Ellice encounters both obvious and more subtle discrimination as the one and only Black in the legal department of Houghton Transportation. Morris brings a vibrant and welcome new voice to the thriller space. A few of the things she encounters are extremely upsetting and difficult to read. All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. ![]() The books also has a few chapters that return to the past and uncover portions of her childhood. After finding a shocking crime one morning while arriving for work, Ellice’s profession, as well as mysteries from past, are in danger.Īll Her Little Secrets is told for the most part in the present from Ellice’s point-of-view. Presently working in the legal division of Houghton Transportation, she is one and only Black person in a prevalently white – and poisonous – working environment. ![]() ![]() This springboard, alongside hard work, willpower, and isolating herself from past, gave Ellice an Ivy League schooling and a career as a lawyer. Morris' All Her Little Secrets is that rare debut novel that doesn't miss a beat-expertly plotted, beautifully written, and so compelling I read it in one sitting. Thanks to a unfailing help of Miss Vera and full scholarship to boarding school. In the year 1979, Ellice Littlejohn got away from small town Chillicothe, Georgia. ![]()
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