Ruby

By Rosa Guy

Subjects: Emigration and immigration, Fiction, Homosexuality, fiction, Relationship, 1000blackgirlbooks, Children's fiction, Friendship, Women, Adventure and adventurers, Harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction

Description: Ruby Cathy feels left without friends, without comfort and without love. Then she meets Daphne Duprey, who is "cool, calm, cultured, sophisticated and refined" - everything that Ruby is not. Together, Ruby and Daphne build a relationship that gives each young woman a new understanding of strength, friendship and love.