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Anita’s debut novel, The Peach Seed , set in southwest Georgia, was a 2021 Top Ten Finalist in the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction . Retha Powers at Henry Holt & Company acquired World rights from  Steve Ross at Steve Ross Agency in a two-book deal. Anita and her husband, Rob Roehrick, founded Gaines-Jones Scholars , a public charity awarding need-based college scholarships to Black students in southwest Georgia and the San Francisco Bay Area in memory of her mother, sister, and father. Literary representation: Steve Ross, Steve Ross Agency . Read Anita’s Story Order The Peach Seed Paperback Also available: Hardcover, Ebook & Audiobook (Narrated by Anita) Henry Holt & Company (August, 2023) BARNES & NOBLE BOOK PASSAGE LIBRO FM (Audiobook) BOOKSHOP.ORG PUBLISHER : HENRY HOLT/MACMILLAN “ The Peach Seed is propulsive, yet thoughtful; sweeping but intricate; a tribute to the African American experience that captures its vastness and depth. 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