Mama Ruby / Mary Monroe.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780758238610
- ISBN: 0758238614
- Physical Description: 406 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Kensington, c2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes Discussion questions and A chat with Mary Monroe. |
Summary, etc.: | After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, fifteen-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans, where nothing can quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her baby go. |
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Subject: | Teenage mothers > Fiction. Runaway teenagers > Fiction. African American women > Fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at GRPL.