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The story of a woman in rural North Carolina who grows up in hard times, endures many sorrows, but persists to become a respected healer in her community. A woman of great wisdom and strength, who through her healing years she helps many people, and eventually discovers how to heal her own heart.REVIEW:?It immediately draws from me the adjective ’genuine.’Ruby is a wonderful creation, maybe a mosaic of more than onewoman. She has ?the gift? all right ? not only for healing withroots and herbs and wise counsel ? but also for patience and forlove and steady affection. Such upright characters arehard to draw convincingly; they go against the grainof our skepticism. But when you get them right,they are strong. What you have here is strong,a memoir-chronicle about a kind of communityand a way of life not so well known anymore.The ?retreat? to yard and garden at the endis a kind of saintly benediction.?~ Fred Chappell, poet, novelist, teacher;Poet Laureate of N.C. (1997-2002) 3
