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Description:

Bam and Maureen Smales, middle-class white liberals from Johannesburg, South Africa, begin their day with a tea tray carried in by their black manservant, July. However, there's something wrong here. The tea is served in two cheap glass cups, along with a jaggedly opened tin of milk. The door at which July knocks is only an aperture in the thick mud wall of an African hut. More... (© New York Times)

Booknotes about July's People:

• Gale Group - for teachers who are subscribed to the Gale Group online service there is an excellent overview of the Ceremony on their "DISCovering Authors" database. Go to Gale Group > Discovering Collection > Literature Search > Title Search. Type in 'July's Peope' and the booknotes will appear. There are also essays and biographies of the author.

  Source Citation: "July's People," in Novels for Students, Vol. 4, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/DC/