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Ruby by cynthia bond.
The story recounts the relationship between ruby bell a woman considered to be crazy and ephram jennings a man considered weak and worthless by a town with dark secrets.
April 29 2014 voodoo faith and racism converge in an east texas town particularly within the troubled titular heroine in this bracing debut novel.
Cynthia bond writes with a dazzling poetry that s part william faulkner part toni morrison yet entirely her own.
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Ruby is a harrowing hallucinatory novel a love story and a ghost story about one woman s attempt to escape the legacy of violence in a small southern town.
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In 1950 ruby makes her escape to new york where colored girls and white pretended to be equal to look for her mother.
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Ruby bell was a constant reminder of what could befall a woman whose shoe heels were too high.
The fact that she had come back from new york city made this somewhat understandable to the town.
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When we first meet ruby bell she s a symbol of local disgrace.
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It s 1974 and a decade earlier she returned to her hometown of liberty seemingly gone crazy.
They called her buck crazy.
Like john imig damon o neil and jason parker of swork coffee for the life sustaining elixir and for allowing me to rest type and weep for hours into months into years.
Ruby is an african american historical fantasy by cynthia bond.
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The people of liberty township wove her into cautionary tales of the wages of sin and travel.
Ruby is encircled by shadows but incandescent with light.
When people started laughing at her she looked down at the puddle she created and dropped all her food.
