

The Dry Grass of August
Author: Anna Jean Mayhew
Narrator: Karen White
Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 11/15/2011
Categories: Fiction
Author: Anna Jean Mayhew
Narrator: Karen White
Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 11/15/2011
Categories: Fiction
Anna Jean (A. J.) Mayhew's first novel, The Dry Grass of August, won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the Book Award from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. She has been writer-in-residence at Moulin a Nef Studio Center in Auvillar, France, and was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Writers' Network. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, A. J. has never lived outside the state, although she often travels to Europe with her Swiss-born husband. Her work reflects her vivid memories of growing up in the segregated South. A. J.-a mother and grandmother-now lives in a small town in the North Carolina Piedmont with her husband and their French-speaking cat.
A touching coming of age story set among the turmoil of overt discrimination and racial tensions in the Deep South in the 1950’s. SUMMARY Road Trip! It’s a hot August in 1954 and thirteen year old Jubie Watts, her family and their maid are all headed to Pensacola, Florida in their Packard. Everyone e......more
I loved this book! A wonderful debut novel. It is the summer of 1953 and 13 year old "Jubie" from Charlotte, North Carolina sets off on a family trip (with their black maid) heading down south to Florida. There are two stories told thru her eyes. One, is the travels down south and the deep rooted ra......more