Ruby is the youngest child in the tightly knit Bronstein family, a
sensitive, observant girl who looks up to her older brothers and is
in awe of her stern but gentle father, a Holocaust survivor whose
past and deep sense of morality inform the family's life. But when
Ruby is ten, her eldest brother enters the hospital and emerges as
someone she barely recognizes. It is only the first in a startling
series of tragedies that befall the Bronsteins and leave Ruby
reeling from sorrow and disbelief.
This disarmingly intimate and candid novel follows Ruby through a
coming-of-age marked by excruciating loss, one in which the
thrills, confusion, and longing of adolescence are heightened by
the devastating events that accompany them. As Ruby's family
fractures, she finds solace in friendships and the beginnings of
romance, in the normalcy of summer camp and the prom. But her anger
and heartache shadow these experiences, separating her from those
she loves, until she chooses to reconcile what she has lost with
whom she has become.
Nellie Hermann's insightful debut is a heartbreakingly authentic
story of the enduring potential for resilience and the love that
binds a family.
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