I just couldn't put this book down once I started reading it, in fact I read it in just one day and it's not a short book (350 pages). Reading it was like watching a train coming down the track that you knew was going to wreck and not being able to prevent it. The author was very blunt in the way she wrote this book, I totally felt like I was in the room with the people she was writing about.
This book is based on real-life tales about the authors grandmother. Ruby was a neglected and abused child who grew up not really knowing who she was and had issues accepting that she was a good person so she went out of her way to prove that she was instead a bad person. Very sad and personal story. I kept wanting to yell "No, don't do that!" and wanting to tell her that instead of listening to what others thought and said of her to instead know that she was worthy of being loved and cherished in the way she deserved to be. This was a sad and hard hitting book that I will not soon forget. Great author and I hope to read more of her writings.
This book is based on real-life tales about the authors grandmother. Ruby was a neglected and abused child who grew up not really knowing who she was and had issues accepting that she was a good person so she went out of her way to prove that she was instead a bad person. Very sad and personal story. I kept wanting to yell "No, don't do that!" and wanting to tell her that instead of listening to what others thought and said of her to instead know that she was worthy of being loved and cherished in the way she deserved to be. This was a sad and hard hitting book that I will not soon forget. Great author and I hope to read more of her writings.
