Ruby Among Us
Tina Ann Forkner
Waterbrook, May 2008, $9.99
ISBN: 9781400073580
Her mother Ruby died when Lucy DiCamillo was eight years old. Her maternal grandmother Kitty raised Lucy with love. Now an adult, Lucy wants to know more about her late mom than mostly the memories shared by her beloved grandmother, but fears any inquiries she makes might hurt Kitty.
Lucy slowly learns why Ruby was a single mom raising her. She also begins to gain other pieces of her mom’s life before Lucy was born and over the eight years they lived together. As she begins uncover secrets that enable her to start to know her mom beyond just her grandmother’s memories of her daughter, Lucy also understands much more what makes Kitty tick and she realizes her granny will always love and cherish her.
This is a superb character study of a young adult needing her own personal connection to her late mom who died when she was a child. As Lucy investigates her maternal family tree, she tries to do so without hurting her grandma; yet begins to have a nagging feeling that everyone else knows secrets they keep from her. Fans will accompany Lucy on her personal quest as she needs to feel Ruby amongst her.
Harriet Klausner
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