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. “A fabulous, significant, beautifully rendered addition to historical fiction.” —Elizabeth Millane, author of Sixty Blades of Grass 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? “Mary Glickman is a wonder.” —Pat Conroy, #1 New York Times– bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and The Boo “Mary Glickman used the history of the Old South to tell a powerful love story that was not supposed to happen.” —John Reynolds, author of The Fight for Freedom “This beautifully written, historically important story will have you enthralled until the very last page.” —Roccie Hill, author of The Blood of My Mother “Meticulously researched, fast-paced, and thoroughly original, Ain't No Grave is a moving, satisfying read.” —Sandra Brett, ADL Southeast board member “This epic journey for love feels like an instant classic.” —Steve Anderson, author of the Kaspar Brothers series . . .Mary Glickman vividly captures milestones in the Leo Frank saga through sympathetic characters as real as the events surrounding them. She deftly intertwines Leo Frank's trial and lynching with the founding of the ADL, the rebirth of a moribund KKK, and an interracial love story. Meticulously researched, fast-paced, and thoroughly original, Ain't No Grave is a moving, satisfying read." - Sandra Brett , Southeast ADL, Board Member. Mary Glickman tells a powerful love story that was not supposed to happen. As a black man, born and raised in Alabama, married to a white woman, this story touched me in profound ways. My wife and I know what it's like to have to deal with Max and Ruby's issues. We have had a cross burned in front of our home. But love doesn't care about these things. . . -John Reynolds, Author of The Fight for Freedom; A Memoir of My Years in the Civil Rights Movement The outcome of the tragic story of Leo Frank and the very real flamboyant reporter, Harold Ross, makes for a setting handled with the touching sensibilities Glickman always displays in her writings about the South she loves. Added to the passion of two young people in love amidst the turmoil of a real tragic event is the passion that Glickman brings to her writing. Love winning out over hate is a strong theme. It is what the world needs. Pat Z i (with a Z!) Creator & Host of the Syndicated Radio Program JOY ON PAPER . . .From rural Georgia to the city of Atlanta, I felt like I was standing beside the characters witnessing the myriad ways human beings find kindness in the face of hate. This beautifully written, historically important story will have you enthralled until the very last page." Roccie Hill, author of The Blood of My Mother . . . I was alternately outraged, sad, wiser, hopeful, and yearning for more. A book for our times. A fabulous, significant, beautifully rendered addition to historical fiction. -Elizabeth Millane , author of Sixty Blades of Grass "Right from page one, you'll want to follow Max and Ruby to the ends of the earth, come what may. This epic journey for love feels like an instant classic." — Steve Anderson, author of the Kaspar Brothers series . With a new novel by Mary Glickman... the themes of anti-Black and antisemitic prejudice in the South reach a traumatic apex.... Glickman's lilting prose and her depiction of rural Georgia life reminded me of... Where the Crawdads Sing ." - Bernie Bellan, Jewish Post News Born on the South Shore of Boston, Massachusetts, Mary Glickman studied at the Université de Lyon and Boston University. She is the author of Home in the Morning ; One More River , a National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Fiction; Marching to Zion ; An Undisturbed Peace ; and By the Rivers of Babylon . Glickman lives in Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, with her husband, Stephen.