"I gave it to a couple of people whose opinions I trust, and I asked them to read it," she says. This, even though Winfrey herself wondered if Ruby would be too tough a read for some of her book club fans. Then came the call from Winfrey, and suddenly, there was money for groceries. For years, as a divorced single mother, she'd try to figure out how to stretch her grocery money, buying plain-wrap items as her 9-year-old daughter pleaded with her to buy name-brand cereal. Like a lot of writers, Bond has scrimped and struggled while trying to complete her work. Random House published Ruby in 2014 in a modest print run of 15,000. With encouragement from her writing group, Bond finished a manuscript. "I got so burned out at one point that I had to take time off, and I was on disability for a stretch of time and that's when I got the first draft," she says. The work took a toll, but it also had a silver lining.
Her killers were never brought to justice.Īnd some of the book's graphic sexual violence was influenced by devastating tales Bond heard when she conducted writing workshops with abused and runaway children. Other inspiration for Ruby came from a whispered family story, of a gorgeous aunt who was murdered by white vigilantes because she had a white lover. Bond does, drawing on memories of her own experience as an abuse survivor.
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