Anna Whelan

A 1980s Southern road-trip/romantic drama.

 

Bound by grief.

Driven by song.

Haunted by a ghost in rhinestones.

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Cilla has spent her life drowning in the noise of everyone else’s dreams. In a fading Alabama town, she tends to her Elvis-obsessed mother and watches her brother bask in borrowed glory as an impersonator of the King. But when tragedy forces her onto a road trip through the Deep South, scattering her mother’s ashes at Elvis’s sacred landmarks, Cilla begins to find her own rhythm.

Setting out on a road trip through Mississippi and Tennessee, Cilla is haunted by guilt, grief, and the music she’s long denied herself. Her unlikely companion, Wolf, a stranger with his own scars, helps her confront the ghosts that have chained her to the past.

As the miles unfold, Cilla begins to uncover the song she was meant to sing—the one that might finally set her free.

Rich with heart and steeped in Elvis lore, Tupelo to Graceland is a soulful southern journey through the wreckage of family and the healing fire of song.