Mama Ruby

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After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, fifteen-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans, where nothing can quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her baby go.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Kensington, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 406 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780758238610
0758238614

SUBJECTS
Teenage mothers -- Fiction.
Runaway teenagers -- Fiction.
African American women -- Fiction.