Title: The Black Tears of Mary Luther - Anna Jean Mayhew - book
Summary :
August 1954, North Carolina. Juby Watts, 13, goes on vacation without her father, who has stayed behind to work in his carpentry business. Destination: Florida. Paula, her distant mother and heavy smoker, drives the family Packard. Juby's older sister, Stell, is excited about getting behind the wheel for the first time. Parked in the back with the children, the black maid, Mary, doesn't participate in the conversations going on inside the car.
