Celia, who has taken a high position in the church, is particularly active in orchestrating the pressure to get her brother back and to put Ruby in her place. From her perspective, the souls of dead children-many the victims of racism and child abuse-seek shelter in her, to protect them from the devilish force that comes in the night.īoth are tolerated by the community, the man-child and the local crazy lady, until they outrage folks by living together. Nonetheless, he feels drawn to Ruby when she returns from New York City and begins acting strangely. His development was arrested at the age of eight when his mother was institutionalized and his older sister, Celia, became his mother. The stories create a continuing sense of the community in which the central characters painfully live and breathe.Įphram Jennings and Ruby Bell meet as children and are linked together by complimentary dolls made for them by a local medicine woman. Ruby is a cluster of arresting stories and savory exchanges among the black inhabitants of a town named Liberty in East Texas.
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