Personalities that bake

under the end of summer sun,
sometimes rise beautifully.

This lovely little book has dressed itself in nakedness and a few well placed balloons! ;)

And so it's ready to join the Party for the 2016 Birthday Rabck Group! :D

Here's to a new dance for a new year! So slip on your party shoes and dust off your hat... It's your day. It's your time. Give them enough to talk about for a good hundred years! >;)

Thank you so much HI77 for sending me this book and the good wishes for my birthday :)

A very enjoyable, thought provoking and touching read :)

Amazon Editorial Review

In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in the throes of segregation and what it will mean for a young girl on her way to adulthood and for the woman who means the world to her.

On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family's black maid, Mary Luther. For as long as Jubie can remember, Mary has been there cooking, cleaning, compensating for her father's rages and her mother's benign neglect, and loving Jubie unconditionally.

Bright and curious, Jubie takes note of the anti-integration signs they pass and of the racial tension that builds as they journey further south. But she could never have predicted the shocking turn their trip will take. Now, in the wake of tragedy, Jubie must confront her parents failings and limitations, decide where her own convictions lie, and make the tumultuous leap to independence.

Infused with the intensity of a changing time, here is a story of hope, heartbreak, and the love and courage that can transform us from child to adult, wounded to indomitable.

A wishlist tag book :)
Happy reading!

thank you for sending this wishlistbook

not really my thing, goes as wishlisttag to Florence71

to France

Book arrived today : enveloppe was tear open and wrap up in a yellow french post enveloppe. Thanks Rodespringbal !
Too many English books to read : reserved for hangman's game

Bonne lecture et dégustation Harobed82 !

Thank you Florence for the book, bookmark, card and chocolate! :)

I loved this book, the story, the writing, the characters... I loved everything! :)

I found it historically interesting, and at the same time very touching.

I'll now reserve it for the "Mail a garden sweepstakes".

Sent to the winner or decoy of the "Mail a garden sweepstakes".
I hope you will like it as much as I did! :)

Arrived today! Thank you