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The Dry Grass of August
by Anna Jean Mayhew
I feel like I'm lost on how to write a review of this book. While I did like the story and writing, I just didn't love it.
This book is told from June, a 13 year old girls, POV. It follows her family on vacation in the 1950's where they take their African American maid, Mary, with them to help out. This is the time where people in the south were very raciest, and this book did an amazing job showing the struggles that African American's faced during this time.
I loved that the author told this story from June's perspective because you could see the struggle June had with other people calling Mary names. June didn't care what color of skin someone had; she knew that a person was a person, no matter what they looked like.
My main issue with this story was that the ending seemed kind of irrelevant. I felt like it should have ended about 75% into the book and I didn't really need the rest of the story. I was just left feeling unsatisfied by the ending; however, I would have been 100% satisfied with it before the actual end of the book.
Overall, I did like this book and think it is a good historical fiction story about racism in the 1950's; however, it's not a book that I would pick up again to reread.
This book is told from June, a 13 year old girls, POV. It follows her family on vacation in the 1950's where they take their African American maid, Mary, with them to help out. This is the time where people in the south were very raciest, and this book did an amazing job showing the struggles that African American's faced during this time.
I loved that the author told this story from June's perspective because you could see the struggle June had with other people calling Mary names. June didn't care what color of skin someone had; she knew that a person was a person, no matter what they looked like.
My main issue with this story was that the ending seemed kind of irrelevant. I felt like it should have ended about 75% into the book and I didn't really need the rest of the story. I was just left feeling unsatisfied by the ending; however, I would have been 100% satisfied with it before the actual end of the book.
Spoiler
The ending needed to be right after Mary's funeral. I didn't care that June's uncle killed himself or that her father's business shady. I honestly think the book went on a little too much at the end, and I didn't need to read about it.Overall, I did like this book and think it is a good historical fiction story about racism in the 1950's; however, it's not a book that I would pick up again to reread.