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In 1954, 13-year-old Jubie, traveling with her family and her family's black maid Mary Luther--who has always been there for her, making up for her father's rages and her mother's neglect--encounters racial tension and tragedy.
Imprint:
New York, NY - Kensington Books
Pages:
294
Series:
ISBN:
9780758254092, 0758254091
Call number:
FICTION MAYHEW 2011
Language:
English
Notes:
Includes discussion questions
Statement of responsibility:
Anna Jean Mayhew
Characteristics:
294 p. ;,21 cm
Author (Original Script):
Mayhew, Anna Jean
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Add a Comment1954 North Carolina. Segregation. Jubie has been raised always having "Mary" helping in the house. She is part of the family. During a summer trip to her uncle's Jubie begins to realize the world's view of segregation and black people generally. It is inconceivable to Jubie. This is a wonderful book. A must read. I highly recommend it for teenagers to adults.
This is a story about June aka Jubie as she is coming of age while dealing with issues of segragation while in North Carolina and in Florida where her family visits her uncle's for the summer. Interesting experiences happen to allow Jubie finding herself and make a statement in her confusing society. Follow how she becomes a young woman. (similarities to both The Help and To Kill A Mockingbird)
A very good read. I enjoyed this book I would recommend this book for all to read.
A wonderful wonderful story! Highly encourage listening to the audiobook version! http://literaryhoarders.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/audiobook-review-the-dry-grass-of-august/
Mayhew explores the world of Jim Crow through the eyes of thirteen year old Jubie Watts as her family travels from Charleston to Florida. Mahew tells a story not unlike Kathryn Stockett's The Help, but with less humor and more fully drawn characters.
The Watts take a road trip from North Carolina to Florida with their black maid Mary, and we experience a horrific tragedy through the eyes of Jubie, the 13 year old daughter. The intimacy that builds between the maid and Jubie, coupled by the harsh reality of the racial tensions at the time, help this book demonstrate the horrible realities faced by African Americans at the time. I personally found the story to be intense, gripping, and believable. I fully recommend this book to anyone interested in this genre.
I enjoyed this book far more than The Help. The story goes much deeper and is more dramatically horrifying. I would skip The Help and read The Dry Grass of August instead!
It is 1954 and the Watts family is taking a road trip from Charlotte North Carolina to Florida with thirteen year old Jubie as our narrator. Along for the ride are Jubie's two sisters, baby brother, mother and her beloved African-American maid - Mary. Tragedy strikes. Jubie is horrified at the racism and struggles to understand the lack of justice in the world. This book will appeal to fans of THE HELP.
Very good read... Depicts the amazing courage of a young girl growing up in the 50's ... a racial drama regarding the changing time of intragration and the racial tension of that era