Ruby is the story of Ruby Cathy, a desperately lonely, beautiful brown teen-ager growing up in Harlem, a virtual prisoner of her suspicious, often brutal, West Indian father. She writes of young lives with the respect and integrity they deserve, without condescension either in language or in tone. Though ostensibly written for young adult readers her stories have a richness and maturity that appeals to any age. In her upbeat sense of economic struggle, and her awareness of and willingness to engage sexual as well as political complexity in her characters, she produces books that are crucial to an understanding of ourselves and our time. Guys characters are so vivid, her language so true, her sense of the emotional life, especially, of young adults so on target, that reading her is like listening to those rousing, nearly forgotten lyrics of one’s youth which though not immediately recognized by the brain are nonetheless responded to quickly by the emotions. In her novels Bird At My Window, The Friends, and now Ruby, Ms.
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