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Over a scorching August day in 1963, seven-year-old Annie Bankers meets the lady who will become her best friend. Skinny, outspoken Starr Dukes and her wandering preacher daddy may well not be accepted by polite culture in Jackson, Mississippi, but Annie and Starr are too occupied posting secrets and participating in elaborate games of Queen for each day to service. Then, as out of the blue as she came out in Annie's life, Starr disappears. Annie grows up to follow the road ordained for pretty, well-to-do Jackson women - marrying an ambitious attorney at law, filling her times with shopping and charity work. She barely recognizes Starr when they meet twenty-seven years after that first fateful summer, but the connection formed such a long time ago quickly reemerges. Starr, pregnant by a powerful married man who would like her to get out of town, has nowhere to carefully turn. And Annie, motivated not to are unsuccessful her friend this time, agrees to drive Starr to New Orleans to get money she's owed. During the eventful highway trip that employs, Annie will confront the gap between friendship and responsibility; between her safe, purchased existence and the dreams she's harvested accustomed to denying. Moving, witty, and beautifully told, The Right Thing is a story of love and courage, the powerful impact of friendship, and the small acts that can anchor a life - or, with a little good luck, steer it in the right route at last.