"A
book is like a special package all wrapped up for me...it's a
wonderful gift I can't wait to open."
Synopsis
A
big-hearted, small-town girl must cope with poverty and a crazy
alcoholic husband, but overcomes her troubles with uncommon
courage.
First Line
What
it begins with, I know finally, is the kernel of meanness in
people's hearts.
Reviews
Vogue
"Ruth,
with the freshest tongue since Huck Finn's, has a shrewish mother
she hates, a deranged husband she loves, a God that fails her, a
job that is poison to her soul--and, with it all, an earthy sense
of humor and a passion for home truths."
