"Ruby" by Cynthia Bond ****

• Early Reviewer edition for LibraryThing.com
• US author
• Scheduled publication 2014
• Review:  This is an Early Review edition of the novel, "Ruby".  I think Cynthia Bond is a wonderful writer.  Her use of language and phrasing were lovely!  This is a haunting tale set in rural Texas.  Two exquisitely sensitive young people are traumatized as children and then find one another as adults.  Despite the religious and social roadblocks they encounter, they realize their love.  This is not the Hatfields and McCoys, nor is it Romeo and Juliet.  This story is uniquely its own in a manner which is mystical, loving, and somehow rings deeply true.  There is sexual violence which is difficult to bear, but the core of this story is about love, and that makes the difference between too much and just right!