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What happened to Ruthy Ramirez

Title

What happened to Ruthy Ramirez / Claire Jiménez.

Author

Jimenez, Claire

Publication

New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2023.
©2023

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Description

ix, 228 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen year old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left eye is instantly recognizable. Could it be Ruthy, after all this time? The years since Ruthy's disappearance haven't been easy on the Ramirez family. It's 2008, and their mother, Dolores, still struggles with the loss, Jessica juggles a newborn baby with her hospital job, and Nina, after four successful years at college, has returned home to medical school rejections and is forced to work in the mall folding tiny bedazzled thongs at the lingerie store. After seeing maybe Ruthy on their screen, Jessica and Nina hatch a plan to drive to where the show is filmed in search of their long lost sister. When Dolores catches wind of their scheme, she insists on joining, along with her pot-stirring holy roller best friend, Irene. What follows is a family road trip and reckoning that will force the Ramirez women to finally face the past and look toward a future-with or without Ruthy in it. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez is a vivid family portrait, in all its shattered reality, exploring the familial bonds between women and cycles of generational violence, colonialism, race, and silence, replete with snark, resentment, tenderness, and, of course, love"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Fiction.
Novels.
Domestic fiction.
Road fiction.

Call Number

Sc E 23-1257

ISBN

9781538725962
1538725967

LCCN

2022047942

OCLC

1334882819

Author

Jimenez, Claire, author.

Title

What happened to Ruthy Ramirez / Claire Jiménez.

Publisher

New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2023.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. DEBUT NOVEL.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-1257

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