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Cynthia bond deserves many awards and a standing ovation. Lush, deep, momentous, much like the people and landscape it describes, ruby enchants not just with its powerful tale of lifelong quests and unrelenting love, but also with its exquisite language. At its heart, the novel is a story about love, friendship, and inner demons. The people of liberty township wove her into cautionary tales of the wages of sin and travel.

Fiction, literary, african american, contemporary women, general pages. People of liberty watch her as she begs miss p for food. One time he saw her stand in the middle the street and start urinating. Ruby bell is an african american girl raised by white folks in liberty, a rural community deep in the piney woods of east texas. I went into it thinking it was going to be a love story story that followed the main character, ruby, out of her hometown to nyc and back again, with all the ups and downs that it entailed. Ruby reading group guide dive into the latest pick for oprahs book club 2. Cynthia bond creates a vibrant chorus of voices united by a common struggle. While bonds characters may sense the inevitability of loss and loneliness, they are also driven by something else, a timid hopefulness that they may find serenity and. Ruby by cynthia bond published by hogarth on april 29, 2014 genreslists. Apr 29, 2014 ruby by cynthia bond is a profound debut novel featuring two beautiful, yet battered souls. Oprah announces her 4th pick for oprahs book club 2. Get recommendations for the greatest books around straight to your inbox. Ruby book by cynthia bond half price books marketplace.

The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from. Nov 03, 2015 feel free to purchase these books from the book depository using my affiliate link so i can use the proceeds to buy even more booksgeneral affiliate link. Young ruby, 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. Oprah winfrey selects cynthia bond s ruby for book club. May 07, 2015 oprahs supersoul conversations cynthia bond. Cynthia bond born 1961 is an american author and former actress. Picked for oprah winfreys book club, this luminous debut novel about the evils visited on a young woman is grounded in reality but woven with. She is blessed, or cursed, with a beauty worthy of attention and that attention marks her for an interaction with influential christian locals who are given to the secret practice of something called conjure. Thank you to cynthia bond for participating let me start off by saying. April 29, 2014 voodoo, faith and racism converge in an east texas townparticularly within the troubled titular heroinein this bracing debut novel. Cynthia bond has written a book everyone should read, about the power of love to overcome even the. This wondrous pageturner rushes through the red dust and gossip of main street, to the pit fire where men. Let me start off by saying that this book isnt what you think it is. Ruby by cynthia bond published by hachette uk on march 12th 2015 genres.

Use this to control your brain mel robbins duration. This wondrous pageturner rushes through the red dust and gossip of main street, to the pit fire where men swill bootleg outside blooms juke, to celia jenningss kitchen, where a cake is being made, yolk by yolk, that ephram will use to try to. Cynthia bond in malibu, california, near paradigm malibu where she is on staff as a therapeutic writing teacher for atrisk youth. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirtyyearold ruby finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. Shes no longer the beauty she once was, but still ephram jennings only sees her through loving eyes.

In 1950, ruby makes her escape to new york, where colored girls and white pretended to be equal, to look for her mother. Ruby is an africanamerican historicalfantasy by cynthia bond. The novels title character ruby has had a rough life strife with inner. Ruby by bond, cynthia and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Fifteen years in the making, and originally 900 pages long, bond divided it into a trilogy on her first. Ruby by cynthia bond book club discussion questions. When the glamorous ruby bell returns to her hometown after living in new york city, her sanity unravels as she faces the secrets of her past. A black boy named ephram loved to watch a black girl named ruby. Anthony marra, author of a constellation of vital phenomena from the first sentence, cynthia bonds unforgettable debut novel, ruby, took hold of me and it hasnt let go. Feb 23, 2015 oprah winfrey has named ruby, a novel about a beautiful, abused woman in texas, as her march book club selection. Ruby by cynthia bond, selected for oprahs book club 2.

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Join facebook to connect with cynthia bond and others you may know. Jun 30, 2016 at 53, cynthia bond is not an average firsttime author, but ruby is not an average debut. I found this to be the most difficult and challenging book i have ever read. The proses lyricism and rubys interaction with the dead call to mind beloved. Cynthia bond is a new york times bestselling author. Buy this book bonds debut novel is difficult to read for its graphic and uncomfortable portrayal of. Reading cynthia bond s ruby, you cant help but feel that one day this book will be considered a staple of our literature, a classic. 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. I love ruby bell and my heart broke into two for her. Cynthia bond s writing will make you think of toni morrison or zora neale hurston and maybe even alice walker.

Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural south, ruby is a transcendent novel of passion and courage. That could make firsttime novelist cynthia bond into a literary star. Ruby has 5 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the. Ruby is a product of the rape of a black woman by a white man.

The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he l. When people started laughing at her she looked down at the puddle she created and dropped all her food. Essay by cynthia bond there are elements of rubylocations, characters, storiesthat have come from real life. Ruby is encircled by shadows, but incandescent with light anthony marra, author of a constellation of vital phenomena pure magic. Buy this book bonds debut novel is difficult to read for its graphic and uncomfortable portrayal of racism, sexual violence, and. Oct 14, 2014 thank you to cynthia bond for participating. Ruby bell was a constant reminder of what could befall a woman whose shoe heels were too high. I love ephram a lot and my heart broke for him too. Feb 10, 2015 information about the book, ruby fiction, paperback, by cynthia bond knopf, feb 10, 2015 african american literature book club celebrating our literary legacy since 1997 black literature is for everyone african american literature book club. Not much of this outfit is inspired by the midcentury setting of the novel. If you buy the book using that link, i will receive a small commission from the sale.

Reading cynthia bonds ruby, you cant help but feel that one day this book will be considered a staple of our literature, a classic. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the citythe darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the villageall the while hoping for a glimpse of the. The official readers guide for ruby by cynthia bond, a selection of oprahs book club 2. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read ruby. Today is book club discussion day for our latest read, ruby by cynthia bond. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. Ephram jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of liberty, their small east texas town. When we first meet ruby bell, shes a symbol of local disgrace. Sensitive readers should be warned that much of the subject matter of cynthia bonds debut novel, ruby, is unflinchingly raw, grim and darkly disturbingin particular, the ritual sexual abuse of children in a voodooinfested rural texas town. Her novel ruby was chosen to be an oprah book club 2. Thienkim may 8, 2014 book club discussion, literary fiction no comments. Oprah winfrey selects cynthia bonds ruby for book club.

Watch the video to find out why the latest selection for oprahs book club 2. Ruby by cynthia bond is a devastatingly rich, provocative, and beautifully written, haunting novel about the secret darkness that can envelop not only an individual, but infect an entire town in a story centered around two powerful characters. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. A haunting debut novel from gifted storyteller cynthia bond, ruby brings to life a. Feel free to purchase these books from the book depository using my affiliate link so i can use the proceeds to buy even more booksgeneral. Ruby by cynthia bond ruby is a story about the needle of lust. Anthony marra, author of a constellation of vital phenomena from the first sentence, cynthia bond s unforgettable debut novel, ruby, took hold of me and it hasnt let go. Official readers guide for ruby by cynthia bond read it. Ruby by cynthia bond is a profound debut novel featuring two beautiful, yet battered souls. Ephram is a lifelong resident of liberty township in east texas. Its a riveting and incredibly moving novel that ill never forget. Cynthias writing is fantastic and beautiful, and confusing at times. 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. This has impacted our family so much and was the base from where the story of ruby started, bond said.

This debut novel, first published in hardcover last spring, will be issued in a special paperback edition bearing the obc 2. Its 1974, and a decade earlier she returned to her hometown of liberty seemingly gone crazy. Her debut novel ruby spent six consecutive weeks on the new york times bestseller list, 1 and was chosen as a selection for oprahs book club 2. A haunting debut novel from gifted storyteller cynthia bond, ruby brings to life a suffocating africanamerican community in east texasliberty townshipwhere, nearly a century after emancipation, the residents are anything but free. Ruby by cynthia bond an oprahs book club selection. An interview with cynthia bond, whose debut novel ruby, over 10 years in the making, was picked for oprah latest book club.

In piercingly lovely prose, cynthia bond s ruby, oprahs latest book club 2. Ruby by cynthia bond hogarth new oprahs book club 2. This post contains affiliate links which you can use to purchase the book. Discuss ruby s different experiences with racism in east texas, new york city, and on her trip back to liberty.

The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her. There were times when the evils unfolding on the pages of bonds horrifyingalbeit impeccably craftedstory of one womans. Download free discussion questions for a lively conversation. Ruby summary ruby is an africanamerican historicalfantasy by cynthia bond. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the citythe darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the villageall the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother. Evident from page one she comes off as a woman who has seen better days. Aug 17, 2016 ruby by cynthia bond published by hachette uk on march 12th 2015 genres. Cynthia bond writes with a dazzling poetry thats part william faulkner, part toni morrison, yet entirely her own. Ephram struggles against the will of the entire town, his church and his strongwilled sister to try to be there for ruby. Honestly, ruby probably would have really enjoyed creating a wake of gossip with these rubycolored skinnies, or maybe im projecting myself onto her. Struggling writers debut novel gets coveted oprah winfrey. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ruby. Official readers guide for ruby by cynthia bond read it forward. Ruby is encircled by shadows, but incandescent with light.