Mama Ruby, Mary Monroe
Mama Ruby, Mary Monroe
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Mama Ruby

Author: Mary Monroe

Narrator: Kevin R. Free

Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/10/2011


Synopsis

An unforgettable tale featuring the rebellious early years of Mama Ruby, the indomitable heroine of New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe’s acclaimed classic novel The Upper Room.

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 …

About Mary Monroe

Mary Monroe is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels, with over one million books in print. 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Danita on December 05, 2021

Five star read. Good damn read, awesome read. I loved it.......more

Goodreads review by Tracy on June 29, 2011

Mama Ruby by Mary Monroe is the prequel to the novel The Upper Room, which I have not read. It is said to have been written to give readers a view into the life of Ruby Upshaw prior to The Upper Room. The story opens in 1934, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Mama Ruby chronicles the lives of childhood frie......more

Goodreads review by Tamara on February 28, 2018

Good read!......more

Goodreads review by Octavia on October 12, 2023

Second time around and I absolutely Adored this Classic so much more than I did years ago 🧡 .......more

Goodreads review by A'ndrea on April 28, 2012

Mama Ruby is the prequel to Mary Monroe's The Upper Room. In this book, Monroe sets the stage for the infamous kidnapping that occurs in The Upper Room. Although I have yet to read the first book, I have been told that Monroe penned Mama Ruby after years of being asked the question, "What would make......more