One of the best sagas Virginia Andrews "wrote" in 1994. Ruby is
a teenager who lives with her grandmother in the swamps of Louisiana; there they
lead a precarious life and she helps her grandmother by selling
paintings made by herself, among other gadgets and groceries she displays in a stand on the
edge of the road.
Despite how hard the situation is Ruby seems to enjoy her life in the
swamps. At school she meets Paul Tate, a very attractive guy son of one of the
wealthiest families of the marshes and it is only when they attempt to
establish a formal relationship that her grandmother Catherine reveals the truth
that will keep them apart for a long time. This confession impels Ruby to put distance
between them with the excuse that she wants to meet other guys.
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