The Upper Room, Mary Monroe
The Upper Room, Mary Monroe
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The Upper Room

Author: Mary Monroe

Narrator: Kevin R. Free

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/24/2008


Synopsis

An instant classic, beloved New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe’s debut novel The Upper Room introduced unforgettable, indomitable, and thrillingly scandalous heroine Mama Ruby.

Mama Ruby’s known for taking things that aren’t rightfully hers, like her best friend’s stillborn infant, who she brought back to life and christened Maureen.

She’s also rumored to have done away with her husband. Some fear her, others try their best to avoid her. But Mama Ruby doesn’t pay them any mind. Not when she’s got the one gift God gave her—her precious baby girl.

But growing up with a mama like Ruby is enough to make any half-sane girl wish for something—anything—else. And when Maureen gets the chance to explore the “real” world, you can bet she’s going to take it … and run like hell.

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

Mama Ruby is crazy as a bedbug. Real Talk. And everybody is scared of her. When her best friend delivers a stillborn little girl, Mama Ruby takes it back to her house to bury with the other bodies. But when, quite some time later, the infant miraculously shows signs of life, Mama Ruby chalks it up to......more

Goodreads review by RYCJ

Storytelling in its finest hour, and in all of its glory. There's very little to say, except I loved, loved this story, and book. Inclusive of a great cast of characters moved by great bodies of rich autistic dialogue, it didn't take long to take a genuine liking to this steep story entrenched in gr......more

This book was a lot of fun to listen to. Positively side splitting laughs 😂......more

Goodreads review by Kimella

This book was so highly praised.....but I just didn't see why??? The story line of a fat black woman doing things without punishment, killing folk, laying healing hands, calling herself living the gospel of Jesus--- yet would murder someone in a heart beat just didn't make any sense to me. When I fin......more

Goodreads review by Tamara

Great read!......more