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She hasn't been dead four months and I've already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. I even ate the green peas. Used to I wouldn't turn my hand over for green peas . . .Ruby Pitt rejects the quiet life planned for her by her adoring family and runs off with John Woodrow, a migrant worker who turns out to be a cruel and violently abusive liar.
When he dies in a street brawl, Ruby takes up with Blinking Jack Stokes, a quiet. uneducated, but highly capable *tenant twenty years her senior. He is as surprised as anyone when she agrees to marry him.
Kaye Gibbons conjures up a vivid portrait of an unlikely but successful marriage set against a land that connects past troubles and present loss with future hopes
ISBN:9781860491153
ISBN:9781860491153
