Mary Glickman, Ain't No Grave: A Novel

The 33^rd Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA Presents

Mary Glickman, Ain't No Grave: A Novel

In Conversation with John Lemley, Host and Producer for WMLB-Atlanta

Author Talk, Q & A & Book Signing

From Mary Glickman, a National Jewish Book Award finalist: A Jewish man and a Black woman find love against all odds, in this novel set during the Leo Frank trial in the twentieth-century American South.

Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who can’t imagine a world where they aren’t together. Unfortunately, no one—not their families, nor anyone else in rural Georgia in 1906—wants to see a White middle-class Jewish boy get too close to the Black daughter of a sharecropper. It’s only a matter of time before fate will separate the two. And that day comes on the eve of Ruby’s womanhood, when a violent act sends her running from her home to the life of a child laborer at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta.

Max moves to Atlanta a few years later, still longing for the girl he has never forgotten. He is soon taken under the wing of Harold Ross, star reporter for the Atlanta Journal. But when Max is assigned to a controversial murder case that pits the Black and Jewish communities against each other, he’s unexpectedly reunited with Ruby. The bond between them is still strong, but with the trial igniting racial tension throughout Atlanta and across the nation, do Max and Ruby dare dream of a future together?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Glickman has written books that have been enjoyed by national audiences and are on the Recommended for Great Group Reads of the Women’s National Book Association for whom she has presented her work on numerous occasions. Her novels have twice been One Book, One Jewish Community selections, in Chicago and Charlotte respectively. She lives on Seabrook Island, just outside of Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband.

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