Great Great Read on Mama Ruby.
I was so happy that I have not read "Upper Room" because now I am so anxious to begin just wanting to know. Mary Monroe has done it again. She has lead us in to ruby's life and got me to compare growing up.
Ruby is a typical preacher's daughters. She was a strong mined individual who knew what she wanted but at the same time, was very inexperience of the everyday things of life. She was young and due to ruby being sheltered by her parents and being a black Negros was very challenging to make something out of her life. Othello was so different from Ruby and I expected more from her. I was hoping that she would have done better base on her past life living with her prostitute mother with many sibling. I don't see any change was done in her life base on how she was living back home and she ending living the same way from what she was running away from.
I believe that Ruby and Othello endured a lot of hardship and bad encounters but somewhat made them took life more serious but was expected more from them. Ruby was a self determined individual and was disappointed in her when she began making the same mistake. With being a mother, I knew how ruby felt about giving her baby up and was sadden to know that she was not over the baby (Maureen).
Ruby got a lot of chances in life and got away every time, just curious on reading upper room and knowing what became of Ruby's future.
I would recommend this book to all; it is a page turner and will be enjoyed from chapter. 1 -59........

Congratulation Mary Monroe.

By: Heather Williams
Reviewed for the Sankofa Literary Society. Book provided by publisher for review purposes