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Mama Ruby / Mary Monroe.

Author: Monroe, Mary.

Publisher: New York : Dafina Books/Kensington, c2011.

ISBN: 9780758238610 (hbk.)
0758238614 (hbk.)

Description: 406 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Teenage mothers Fiction.
Runaway teenagers Fiction.
African American women Fiction.

Notes: Includes discussion questions and an author interview.

Summary: 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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