Join us for First Friday to meet and greet Phillip E. Norris on April 3rd at Page & Palette!
Stop by between 5:30-7:30PM to grab a glass of wine and get a copy of New Roads to Old Places signed. Come chat with the author and discover your next great read!
New Roads to Old Places
A teenage prankster. A segregated state. A dangerous game of truth and rebellion.
In 1960s, Alabama, Pip Cooper's antics land him in a strict religious boarding school, a last-ditch effort by his parents to reform his wild spirit. But Pip doesn't change-he adapts. With his new partners-in-mischief, Pecker and Archie, he pushes pranks to theatrical heights, leaving a permanent mark on New Roads School and College. But when Pip sets his sights beyond the school gates-onto Alabama's white supremacist state government-his high jinks cross a perilous line.
With civil rights hanging in the balance, and a dangerous new governor taking office, Pip's stunts spark real-world consequences. His bold defiance pulls an unlikely atty into the fray: a
Jewish housewife from New York who becomes both his conscience and his collaborator. As the stakes rise, Pip's fight for justice transforms into a reckoning with race, responsibility, and the price of disruption.
Set against the backdrop of a segregated South on the brink of change, this razor-sharp coming-of-age story explores youthful rebellion, unexpected friendship, and the cost of conscience in a world stacked against truth.
Phillip E. Norris
Phillip graduated from the University of Alabama with an undergraduate degree in Communication and a Master's degree in Social Work. He then earned degrees in Education and Applied Behavioral Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and he was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the Rush Silver Medal award from the American Psychiatric Association, a legislative citation from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and he wrote a syndicated series for the Los Angeles Times. He was the President of the South Alabama Institute and the Director of the University of South Alabama Baldwin County, a regional campus of the University of South Alabama, for 25 years.