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The epic, remarkable story of a guy determined to safeguard the woman he loves from the town desperate to demolish her - this beautiful and disastrous debut heralds the arrival of a major new tone of voice in fiction. Ephram Jennings hasn't forgotten the beautiful female with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, "the type of pretty it harm to look at," has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright yank of 1950s NY. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe middle of the city - the darkened piano pubs and concealed alleyways of the Community - all the while longing for a view of the red hair and green eye of her mom. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to come back home, 30-year-old Ruby Bell sees herself reliving the disastrous assault of her girlhood. Along with the terrifying realization that she is probably not strong enough to fight her way back away again, Ruby struggles to endure her recollections of the town's dark past. In the mean time, Ephram must select from commitment to the sister who increased him and the opportunity for a life with the woman he has enjoyed since he was a guy. Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural South, Ruby is a transcendent book of love and courage. This wondrous pause-resister rushes through the red particles and gossip of Main Street, to the pit hearth where men swill bootleg outside Bloom's Juke, to Celia Jennings's kitchen in which a cake has been made, yolk by yolk, that Ephram use to try to start again with Ruby. Utterly transfixing, with remarkable people, riveting suspense, and breathtaking, luminous prose, Ruby offers an unflinching portrait of man's dark serves and the guarantee of the redemptive ability of love.
