Here'a wonderful, basic story of heartfelt love. There was something about Ruby from the first day Jack saw her at the picnic table where all the migrant workers met before work. Ruby Pitt was a woman that bore her share of crosses.This story follows Jack's love for his wife through their marriage, through Ruby's illness and beyond.It's a sweet story that will pull at your heart strings and I have to say, it had me crying...
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Within the short span of 165 pages, Gibbons is able to capture the psychological and emotional dynamics between Ruby and Jack. Listening to their alternating voices, I was able to delve deep into who these people are and how much they love each other. (I laughed, I cried, I read sections to my husband, etc.) And though some have disparaged it for being "depressing", I think what some are really disappointed with is ...
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I don't care if Ruby and Jack were together for true love or for need, but this novel was a definite story about love of some sort. I was touched, moved to tears, and laughed off my seat. A VIRTUOUS WOMAN was beautiful, heart-wrenching, sweet and honest. Definitely one of Oprah's better choices, but read it for other reasons, too.
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I couldn't put this book down.Love came to Ruby and Jack differently than it does to most of us in modern times. We are witness to the backgrounds of both Ruby and Jack as well as their perspective of their situations. I liked the way the author alternated the chapters between the wife's voice and the husbands.The story reminds us that make our own choices in life and often we let our circumstances push us into unwise ones...
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