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Ruby, February 2015
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Hogarth
February 2015
On Sale: February 10, 2015
Featuring: Ruby; Ephram
370 pages ISBN: 0804188246 EAN: 9780804188241 Kindle: B00S3RIM9S Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Multicultural Contemporary Fiction
The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special
ebook edition of Ruby by Cynthia
Bond features exclusive content, including Oprah’s
personal notes, highlighted within the text; a reading group
guide; and audio clips read by the author (supported devices
only). The epic, unforgettable
story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from
the town desperate to destroy her, this beautiful and
devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice
in fiction. Ephram Jennings has never
forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running
through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas
town. Young Ruby Bell, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look
at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can,
she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s
New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of
the city—the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the
Village—all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair
and green eyes of her mother. When a telegram from her
cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby finds
herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood.
With the terrifying realization that she might not be strong
enough to fight her way back out again, Ruby struggles to
survive her memories of the town’s dark past. Meanwhile,
Ephram must choose between loyalty to the sister who raised
him and the chance for a life with the woman he has loved
since he was a boy.
Full of life, exquisitely
written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural
South, Ruby is a transcendent novel of
passion and courage. This wondrous page-turner rushes
through the red dust and gossip of Main Street, to the pit
fire where men swill bootleg outside Bloom’s Juke, to Celia
Jennings’s kitchen, where a cake is being made, yolk by
yolk, that Ephram will use to try to begin again with Ruby.
Utterly transfixing, with unforgettable characters, riveting
suspense, and breathtaking, luminous
prose, Ruby offers an unflinching portrait
of man’s dark acts and the promise of the redemptive power
of love.
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