Ain’t No Grave

De: Mary Glickman

Narrado por: Alexandra Cohler

From 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?

©2024 Mary Glickman (P)2024 Tantor

Lovely!

A historical fiction piece about two destined lovers and their journey through growing up while facing discrimination for their race and religion. Glickman makes you fall in love hard and fast for Max and Ruby and you’ll want to keep reading to see how their story ends.

Wonderful characters and story

If you live in Ga, this is a must read. However, everyone will really enjoy.

Very important read

This book is a must read about discrimination against African Americans and Jews around the early 1900’s related to the Leo Frank case.