The Dry Grass of August
by Anna Jean Mayhew
294 pages· ISBN 9780758254092
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In a personal, powerful debut, Mayhew explores the explosive tensions of the South in the mid-1950s through the prism of a young girl's friendship with her black maid and the currents of violence, infidelity, and corruption that run beneath the police surface of her family's life.
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