Rating:  ☆☆☆

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Author:   Kaye Gibbons

Genre:  Fiction

167 pages, published November 5, 1997

Reading Format:  Book

Summary

When Jack Stokes met Ruby Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty.  Ruby was the daughter of a Carolina gentry family and was a newly widowed after disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter.  Jack was a skinny tenant farmer with nothing to his name but his pride.  This unlikely pair created a special bond with each other and a remarkable marriage.

Quotes 

“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren’t good or bad,

they’re just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”

 

“Oh, it’s no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you’ll let it be anybody.”

 

“You have to be so careful. You can’t ever just throw words out. They have to land somewhere.”

 

“And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don’t you believe it to be so?” 

My Take

I read this book a while ago and I must say that it really didn’t stick with me.  It’s not bad, just not great.  Gibbons is a skilled writer, but I just didn’t care that much about the relationship between Ruby and Jack.