![]() ![]() Cynthia Bond adds in the “Dyboù” this evil spirit that takes over the characters who abuse Ruby. Woven into the story are symbols that remind me of the voodoo images in the Disney movie, Princess & the Frog, set in New Orleans, Louisiana. The love Ephram shows toward Ruby is breathtaking, beautiful, and a reminder of the power love has to restore. You find yourself underlining prose that makes you stop longer than necessary once you reach the end of a sentence.Ĭynthia finds a way to balance the horrific details of racism, murder, human trafficking, and rape with a beautiful love story between Ephram Jennings and Ruby Bell ( See resources on these topics). The book is set in a small town in East Texas and presents topics that will make your heartache, because you know the words are fiction but can also be someone’s reality.Ĭynthia Bond’s writing reminds me of the magic I felt flying off the page when I read, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. As you read the book Ruby, you might see yourself in the main character or Ruby Bell might remind you of someone you know. When you know that art is imitating life. Dark Truth in Fiction – It’s that feeling I got watching Cicely Tyson and Viola Davis in the episode of How to Get Away with Murder or watching the Color Purple. ![]()
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