Mama Ruby
Written by Mary Monroe
Narrated by Kevin R. Free
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Growing up in Shreveport, Louisiana, Ruby Jean Upshaw is the kind of girl who knows what she wants and knows how to get it. By the time she’s fifteen, Ruby has a taste for fast men and cheap liquor, and not even her preacher daddy can set her straight. Only Othella Mae Cartier, daughter of the town tramp, understands what makes Ruby tick.
When Ruby discovers she’s in the family way, she’s scared for the first time in her life. After hiding her growing belly, Ruby secretly gives birth to a baby girl at Othella’s house. Othella talks Ruby into giving the child away—and with the help of a shocking revelation, convinces Ruby to run off with her to New Orleans.
But nothing can erase Ruby’s memories of her child—or quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her precious baby go. Someday there will be a reckoning. And Othella will learn that no one exacts revenge quite like Ruby Jean Upshaw …
Mary Monroe
Mary Monroe is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five novels and six novellas. She is a three-time AALBC bestseller and winner of the AAMBC Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the J. California Cooper Memorial Award. The daughter of Alabama sharecroppers, she taught herself how to write before going on to become the first and only member of her family to finish high school. She lives in Oakland, California, and loves to hear from her readers via e-mail at Authorauthor5409@aol.com. Visit Mary’s website at MaryMonroe.org.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved the book but I hate Mama Ruby. I don't like how the book ended.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I was given this book for review from the publisher. I hate to say anything bad about a book, but sometimes it can't be helped. In order for everyone to have an author they like or a writing style they prefer, there must be many different types of story's. This is one of the stories that does not fit those that I prefer. I find the author's style in this book to be a bit too vulgar and sexually explicit for my taste. I have a huge problem with the story and the age of the some of the characters. I know that these things happen, but do I really want to read a blow by blow of it.Right now I am unable to finish the book. I find myself looking for any and every reason not to pick it up. It is like pulling teeth to make myself read. So, for now I am going to read something else and come back to this later. If I finish the book or have more to say about it I will edit at such time.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome. Mary Monroe is one of my favorite authors. I highly recommend this book.