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Mama Ruby
Record details
- ISBN: 9780758272065 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0758272065 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780758238610 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0758238614 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (353 p.) - Publisher: New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes discussion questions. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Teenage mothers -- Fiction Runaway teenagers -- Fiction African American women -- Fiction New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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- Baker & Taylor
After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, 15-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans where nothing can erase the memories of the child she lost or quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her baby go. - Baker & Taylor
After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, fifteen-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans, where nothing can quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her baby go. - Random House, Inc.
New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe presents an unforgettable tale featuring the rebellious early years of Mama Ruby, the indomitable heroine of her acclaimed novelThe 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 knows how to exact revenge quite like Ruby Jean Upshaw. . .
