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Mama Ruby

Mama Ruby - Paperback

by Mary Monroe
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary MonroeSeries:Mama Ruby NovelAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2023-07-25Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dafina BooksISBN-13:9781496739179ISBN-10:1496739175UPC:9781496739179Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Coming of Age, LiteraryBook Topic:WomenSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCM00CKQT6
The new edition of a modern classic by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe!

An enduring tale of the rebellious early years of Mama Ruby in 1930s Louisiana - the bold, brassy, indomitable heroine of Mary Monroe's acclaimed debut, The Upper Room.

Growing up in Shreveport, Louisiana, Ruby Jean Upshaw is the kind of girl who knows what she wants and knows how to get it. By the time she's fifteen, Ruby has a taste for fast men and cheap liquor, and not even her preacher daddy can set her straight. Only Othella Mae Cartier, daughter of the town tramp, understands what makes Ruby tick.

When Ruby discovers she's in the family way, she's scared for the first time in her life. After hiding her growing belly, Ruby secretly gives birth to a baby girl at Othella's house. Othella talks Ruby into giving the child away--and with the help of a shocking revelation, convinces Ruby to run off with her to New Orleans.

But nothing can erase Ruby's memories of her child--or quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her precious baby go. Someday there will be a reckoning. And Othella will learn that no one exacts revenge quite like Ruby Jean Upshaw . . .
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dafina BooksISBN-13:9781496739179ISBN-10:1496739175UPC:9781496739179Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Coming of Age, LiteraryBook Topic:WomenSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCM00CKQT6
Mary Monroe is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five novels and six novellas. She is a three-time AALBC bestseller and winner of the AAMBC Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the J. California Cooper Memorial Award. The daughter of Alabama sharecroppers, she taught herself how to write before going on to become the first and only member of her family to finish high school. She lives in Oakland, California, and loves to hear from her readers via e-mail at Authorauthor5409@aol.com. Visit Mary's website at MaryMonroe.org.
Publisher: Dafina Books

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