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  title info:
    title: Probably Ruby
  name:
    name part: Bird-Wilson, Lisa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 254 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
  abstract: For readers of Tommy Orange's There There and Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries, Probably Ruby is an audacious, brave and beautiful book about an adopted woman's search for her Indigenous identity. Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is placed in a foster home and finally adopted by Alice and Mel, a less-than-desirable couple who can't afford to complain too loudly about Ruby's Indigenous roots. But when her new parents' marriage falls apart, Ruby finds herself vulnerable and in compromising situations that lead her to search, in the unlikeliest of places, for her Indigenous identity. Unabashedly self-destructing on alcohol, drugs and bad relationships, Ruby grapples with the meaning of the legacy left to her. In a series of expanding narratives, Ruby and the people connected to her tell their stories and help flesh out Ruby's history. Seeking understanding of how we come to know who we are, Probably Ruby explores how we find and invent ourselves in ways as peculiar and varied as the experiences of Indigenous adoptees themselves. Ruby's voice, her devastating honesty and tremendous laugh, will not soon be forgotten. Probably Ruby is a perfectly crafted novel, with effortless, nearly imperceptible shifts in time and perspective, exquisitely chosen detail, natural dialogue and emotional control that results in breathtaking levels of tension and points of revelation.
  note: Lisa Bird-Wilson.
  subject:
    topic: Foster children
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Philosophical concept)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous women
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR9199.4.B524 P76 2021
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9780385696685
  identifier: 038569668X
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 210302
    record change date: 20220830202412.3
    record identifier: in00004592070
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng