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![]() ![]() As one character in the novel observes, "Hell, ain't nothing strange when Colored go crazy. What made her that way? Layer by layer, all is revealed.Īs with Pecola Breedlove in The Bluest Eye and Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ruby's pain is born of her own experience-her very existence is the result of a white man's rape of her mother she was sexually abused as a child she worked as a prostitute-but it's also the embodiment of slavery's legacy. The rumors that she's crazy are fueled by her actions, as when, in an early scene, she stands still outside and urinates, in full view of everyone. But no one is disapproved of more than Ruby. It's a place of paradoxes where drunken, cheating men chew tobacco outside juke joints, then stumble home to churchgoing wives who disapprove of their behavior yet never say so. ![]() The title character, when we first encounter her, is a once beautiful, now ravaged woman-filthy and barefoot-who wanders the streets of all-black Liberty Township, Texas. It's a love story, a ghost story, a story about the legacy of racial injustice and sexual abuse. ![]() ![]() Believe me, it's not easy finding words to describe Ruby, because nothing comes close to the experience of reading it. ![]()
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