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"Ephram Jenkins has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look at," is already quite damaged, but Ephram is forcibly drawn to her. As soon as she becomes a young woman and has any power of her own, Ruby flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York City. Years later, when a funeral forces her to return home, 30-year-old Ruby will find herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. With the terrifying realization that she might not…
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3 editions · 2 languages- Other · English · 2015Two Roads · 349 pages · 9781473620513
- Other · English · 2014443 pages · 9780804194952
- Other · French · 2017Christian Bourgeois Éditeur · 9782253098928
First lovesAfrican AmericansFictionFiction, african american, romanceTexas, fictionAfrican americans, fictionFiction, african american, historicalNew york (n.y.), fiction