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. This beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. 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. Ruby: A Novel (Oprahs Book Club 2.0) Hardcover Deckle Edge, Apby Cynthia Bond (Author) 1,582 ratings Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 18.69 68 Used from 1.61 8 New from 15.99 7 Collectible from 9. A New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection, the epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her. 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.įull of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural South, Ruby is a transcendent novel of passion and courage. 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. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. 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. 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. ‘EXCEPTIONAL’ Uzo Aduba ( Orange Is The New Black)Įphram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town.

*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS’ WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016*** Ruby is a harrowing, hallucinatory novel, a love story and a ghost story about one womans attempt to escape the legacy of violence in a small southern town.

Ruby by cynthia bond