After seeing a doctor, Ruby finally remembers the day that Pearl died. Ruby does not even remember having a twin, much less killing her.
Belling, her mother's new boyfriend, gets mad at her and tells her that she killed her own twin sister, Pearl. Then when Ruby catches her father having sex with a waitress at her uncle's wedding and then he immediately has a heart attack and dies, that leaves Ruby with only her mother. She feels her only friend in her home is her older sister Patricia, but when Patricia has a baby and she has to put the baby up for adoption and then later runs away from home, Ruby is left alone with just her mother and father. Then when Gillian is eleven she is killed on Christmas Eve when she is hit by a bus. She always feels like her mother and father loved her sister Gillian more than her. As she grows up she can no longer tell what her mother is thinking but she never feels like her mother loves her. The fact that her mother's life is not as she had imagined it is not lost on Ruby. When Ruby begins she knows all the things her mother thinks and feels about her life. She takes the reader through her life from conception to being married with children of her own, to having to bury her own mother. The main character of this novel is Ruby Lennox.
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