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(More customer reviews)Ryan's book is a heartfelt, compelling story of one woman's quest to find love and forgiveness, both for herself and her relationships. The main character, Ruby, weaves in and out of her Chinese American background as she tries to find pieces of each culture that will help her become the strong woman she aspires to be.
Ruby begins her narration with the night her mother is taken from their apartment by policemen. Ruby's mother is mentally ill, and cannot function without medication. The struggle with shame, fear, and guilt over not being able to protect her mother, or forgive herself, propels Ruby into therapy. Her journey into eventual resolution takes Ruby through memories into the past, where the reader catches glimpses of an unstable childhood fraught with confusion, and experiences with violent domestic abuse. Along the way, the adult Ruby stumbles through intimate relationships, learns to deal with the realities of having a mentally ill parent, and makes a dear friend who becomes a surrogate grandmother. This nurturing character, Mrs. Nussbaum, provides a voice of wisdom to the story that envelops it in reassurance. By the end, as Ruby fits all of the pieces together, her self love extends outward into a mature forgiveness of her parents, and opens into a wider circle of giving. The reader is let into the gentle secret that love is an endless, self-generating energy that rewards the giver as much as the receiver.
This book is a real page-turner, and I recommend it to anyone!
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Ruby's life has become unmanageable ever since the day her mother's emotional breakdown forced Ruby to hospitalise her, shaming the family. Now Ruby is caught between two different cultures - one in which she is the American girl, and one in which she is known only as 'daughter'.
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