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Cargando... Ruby (1998)por Ann Hood
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Yes, it's based on a ridiculous premise (recently widowed young woman discovers a pregnant teenager in her house and decides to befriend the teen and keep her 'unwanted' baby), but if you accept that premise, it's not too bad. I picked this up for a bit of light reading between "serious" novels and is served its purpose rather well. The characters are mostly well developed and interesting, if not altogether believable. About 2/3 of the way through I became confident that I knew how it would end, but Hood avoided the romantic finish I predicted and opted for a rather more realistic alternative, to her credit. ( ) Olivia has lost her husband, David, to a reckless driver, killed while jogging along a country road. Olivia, only 37, is faced with immeasurable grief and the nagging guilt that she had something to do with his death. In an effort to move on with her life she resolves to sell their summer cottage and put the past behind her. Only she can't. A pregnant, defiant, wayward teen has made herself at home in Olivia and David's seemingly abandoned house. Within a few minutes of confronting her, Olivia begins to bond with Ruby, seeing more of herself in the teenager than she would like to admit. What Ruby and Olivia can admit to is the fact they need each other. From this point forward Ann Hood's storytelling is a psychological dance between the needy yet tough Olivia and the tough yet needy Ruby. Both of them want something from the other. Both are willing to manipulate the other to get it. The story becomes a page turner because you want to know who wins. To summarize, Ruby is a pregnant teenage runaway. Olivia is a thirty-something milliner (a hat maker to us common folk) whose husband was recently killed in an accident. So...Olivia retreats from her NY apartment to her Rhode Island beach bungalow (I like it when people live in cool places in books. Even if it's not realistic! I feel like I get to live there too for awhile.). I know you can't wait to read the book to find out how they meet so I'll tell you...they meet in Olivia's house after Ruby has broken in! And then Olivia decides she should adopt the baby when it's born and the broken down bungalow becomes a safe-ish haven for all three. But really it's not a sad story with a fairy tale or tragic ending. I got the feeling I was seeing how things might play out if that story actually happened out here in the real world. It's only 225 pages, and I enjoyed it so much that I read it in one day. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A grieving young widow and a pregnant teenager find an uncommon friendship in a luminous, deeply moving novel nbsp; After a college student speeding in a blue Honda Civic kills her husband of less than a year, Olivia is completely lost. One hot summer day, she walks into the beachfront Rhode Island cottage she and David bought the previous August--the place where they had planned to someday start a family--and finds a stranger sitting at her kitchen table. nbsp; Pregnant fifteen-year-old Ruby is looking for a safe haven for herself and her baby-to-be. Olivia takes her in, desperate to assuage her grief through human connection, even with a troubled teenager. But Ruby has something else that Olivia wants. When she agrees to let Olivia adopt her unborn child, Olivia's life begins to change in ways she never imagined. A story of love, loss, and unexpected friendship,nbsp;Rubynbsp;introduces two women who help each other move on with their lives in a world where there are no easy answers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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