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Anna Jean Mayhew

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in Charlotte, North Carolina, The United States

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Anna Jean "A. J." Mayhew’s first novel, The Dry Grass of August won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the book award from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, and has been translated into seven languages. She was a writer in residence for a month at Moulin à Nef Studio Center in Auvillar, France.
A. J.’s second novel, Tomorrow's Bread, is about the destruction of inner city neighborhoods in urban renewal programs that swept across the country, beginning in the 1950s and continuing today. As a native Charlottean, A. J. witnessed the demolition of the Brooklyn community in Second Ward, and her feelings about that travesty prompted the writing of Tomorrow's Bread. The novel was selected for the TRIO progr ...more

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	The Dry Grass of August 3.92 avg rating — 23,989 ratings — published 2011 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tomorrow's Bread 3.97 avg rating — 2,276 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sensational South Carolina it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“You repent. God forgives you. But the Lord don’t work in advance. He don’t pardon sins you fixing to commit.”
― Anna Jean Mayhew, The Dry Grass of August

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“Putting God in the pledge and on money—that’s like a sign in the sky saying ‘air.’ ”
― Anna Jean Mayhew, The Dry Grass of August

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“Owning the beach is like owning a mountain or an island, putting your name on something that belongs to the whole world.”
― Anna Jean Mayhew, The Dry Grass of August

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August ~ BotM Nominations-(Dusty Read) 1st Poll

Top 5 Books move on to the 2nd Poll!!!

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

8 votes, 12.7%

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

8 votes, 12.7%

We Need to Talk About Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

6 votes, 9.5%

Between Shades of Gray

by Ruta Sepetys

6 votes, 9.5%

The Golem and the Jinni

by Helene Wecker

6 votes, 9.5%

The Lost Wife

by Alyson Richman

5 votes, 7.9%

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

5 votes, 7.9%

The Boy in the Suitcase

by Lene Kaaberbøl

3 votes, 4.8%

The Dry Grass of August

by Anna Jean Mayhew

3 votes, 4.8%

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3 votes, 4.8%

Strip Tease

by Carl Hiaasen

3 votes, 4.8%

French Lessons

by Ellen Sussman

2 votes, 3.2%

The Power of One

by Bryce Courtenay

2 votes, 3.2%

The Bookman’s Tale

by Charlie Lovett

2 votes, 3.2%

The First Day of the Rest of My Life

by Cathy Lamb

1 vote, 1.6%

Corduroy Mansions

by Alexander McCall Smith

0 votes, 0.0%

Summer and Bird

by Katherine Catmull

0 votes, 0.0%

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“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”
― W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

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