Ruby (Oprah's Book Club 2.0) Top Price

Books : Free Shipping In U.S.

Review for Ruby (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

Great Price for Ruby (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

Best Offer for Ruby (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

Bond expertly weaves an atmospheric and haunting tale, told in rich and poetic language full of talent.
RUBY, a powerful and disturbing debut novel from Cynthia Bond, opens with kindhearted Ephram Jennings asking his sister Celia to bake him a white angel food cake to take to a sick friend. The sick friend turns out to be Ruby Bell, who lives on Bell land, all the way on the other side of town. Now 47, Ephram has known and loved Ruby from childhood. He fondly remembers her as “the sweet little girl with long braids. The kind of pretty it hurt to look at, like candy on a sore tooth.” Ruby is currently in her early 40s, and since her return 11 years earlier to her hometown of Liberty, Ephram has watched her steadily slip into madness. She now walks into town with her “hair caked with mud. Blackened nails as if she had scratched the slate of night. Her acres of legs carrying her, arms swaying like a loose screen. Her eyes the ink of sky, just before the storm.”

Long considered the town whore, Ruby is used by the town’s men and shunned by the...

Ruby (Oprah's Book Club 2.0) Reveiws

Ruby (Oprah's Book Club 2.0) Offer

Great Price for Ruby (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

Ruby (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)