The first half of the book focuses on Ephram's journey through town, the cake on full display, as he withstands the jeers and cruelty of the townspeople. All save Ephram Jennings, who promptly returns home, asks his sister to bake her famous white lay angel cake, and rises the next morning to bring it to Ruby. The book opens with Ruby Bell wetting herself in the street as the men circle on a center-of-town porch, jeering and judging. Certainly, Ruby by Cynthia Bond was all the talk of the Oprah airwaves in 2015, and I chose it for this twelfth installment. Compassion, community, family, love, magic realism, metaphor. Sexism, rape, systematic racial injustice, torture, cruelty.
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