Synopsis In this 1985 novel, a large and colorful African-American woman named Ruby Montgomery ("Mama Ruby") kidnaps her best friend's baby and takes off for Florida.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2002-07-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 346 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Publisher's Note Maureen, a young black girl torn between the remarkable powers of her mother, the notorious Mama Ruby, whose healing powers and reputation cause people to fear her, and the harsh realities of life, comes of age, in a powerful, evocative tale set in a migrant labor camp in the bayous of the Florida Everglades.
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