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“Cynthia Bond creates a vibrant chorus of voices united by a common struggle… [T]he prose’s lyricism and Ruby’s interaction with the dead call to mind Beloved … While Bond’s characters may sense the inevitability of loss and loneliness, they are also driven by something else, a timid hopefulness that they may find serenity and compassion amid the ghosts who haunt them.”
Apr 28, 2014 · Though 53-year-old Cynthia Bond has been teaching writing to homeless and at-risk youth for more than 15 years, she'd never published a book herself. Now, with her novel Ruby, Bond proves to be a powerful literary force, a writer whose unflinching yet lyrical prose is reminiscent of Toni Morrison's. Ruby Bell—"the kind of pretty it hurt to ...
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Ruby. by Cynthia Bond. Hogarth Press (2015); 368 pp.; $14.88 (Paperback) Buy Book. I first met Cynthia Bond in 2014, just after Random House published her debut novel, Ruby. A mutual friend introduced us, saying, “Cynthia is the real deal.”. We exchanged numbers. Bond is a single mom to Malia, and I have two sons, so we bonded over both ...
CYNTHIA BOND has taught writing to homeless and at-risk youth throughout Los Angeles for more than fifteen years. She attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, then moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. A PEN/Rosenthal Fellow, Bond founded the Blackbird Writing Collective in 2011. At ...
Cynthia Bond has written a book everyone should read, about the power of love to overcome even the darkest of histories. Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Ruby is a harrowing, hallucinatory novel, a love story and a ghost story about one woman's attempt to escape the legacy of violence in a small southern town.
