Ruby River

By Lynn Pruett

Subjects: Women, Widows, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, sagas, Large type books, Relais routiers, Romans, nouvelles, Clergé, Mères et filles, Truck stops, Alabama, fiction, Single mothers, Fiction, Clergy, Widows, Mères de famille monoparentale, Clergy, fiction, Veuves, Mothers and daughters

Description: "Lynn Pruett's novel drops us into a small town during a blistering Alabama summer where Hattie Bohannon has just opened a truck stop. A magnet for transients of questionable background and inclination, and run by Hattie's nubile daughters, the truck stop is an uneasy presence in tradition-bound, gossipy Maridoches.". "Hattie is quietly mourning her recently dead husband and trying to determine the contours of her self alone, but too often her strong-willed daughters - whose burgeoning sexuality is attracting attention from the truck-stop patrons - keep her at loose ends. In a season of unrelenting heat, desire gestates and hovers over Maridoches, threatening the moral equilibrium of the small church-town. Then Hattie's oldest daughter, Jessamine, is falsely accused of prostitution, and the reverend conveniently declares war against the immorality of the Bohannons and their establishment. What ensues is a clash of wills and values that will leave no one unaffected."--BOOK JACKET.