I love how she encourages him to acknowledge his history, and how it poignantly depicts his struggle between deciding between the privilege he would receive from passing and fully embracing his identity as a black man and the hardships he and his ancestors faced. Meanwhile, Adam is one such person who has chosen to do this, although Ruby isn’t fooled. I admired how firm she was in her convictions about her identity, when some black and mixed-race people who could do so elected to pass for white and escape persecution. And she certainly does so with Ruby, a survivor of sexual assault with an illegitimate child. In an opening note to the book, Huguley notes that she was inspired by Tess of D’Urbervilles, inspiring a more optimistic end for its tragic heroine. And if this book is an indicator of her body of work, I am eager to read more. But Ruby must choose between seeking her own happiness and staying to fight for the soul of her hometown.Ī recent essay piqued my interest in A Virtuous Ruby by Piper Huguley, an author I had read been introduced to in an anthology and long desired to read more from. And soon, Adam wants nothing more than to take Ruby and her child far from Georgia’s toxic prejudice. Something powerful draws him to the beauty whose activist spirit is as fiery as her name. Now that he’s in Georgia, summoned by his white father, he can feel restrictions closing in around him. Adam Morson easily kept his mixed race a secret.
Despite his arrogance, Ruby senses he’s someone like her, whose light skin doesn’t quite hide who he is. When she comes to help an injured mill worker, she bristles when a tall, handsome man claiming to be a doctor brushes her aside.
Migrations of the Heart, Book 1 After fifteen months of hiding from the shame of bearing an illegitimate child, two words drive Ruby Bledsoe to face the good citizens of Winslow, Georgia.
: Lilaceae Press, 2020.ĪSIN: B087XX47Z3 | $2.99 USD | 226 pages | Historical RomanceĪn unexpected love in a small, Southern town.
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