Ruby, the debut novel by 53-year-old Cynthia Bond, was published last April to positive reviews and modest sales. The book had 20,000 copies in print - until Oprah Winfrey announced that Ruby was her new book club pick and her latest acquisition for Harpo Films. Now Penguin Random House is printing 250,000 copies of the paperback edition. "I found the language and descriptions so vividly compelling," Oprah said, "that sometimes I would have to take a breath and repeat the sentences out loud." A Texas native and former actor with New York's Negro Ensemble Company, Bond now teaches therapeutic writing to at-risk youth in Los Angeles.
- 2/11/2015
- by Meredith Maran, @meredithmaran
- PEOPLE.com
Ruby, the debut novel by 53-year-old Cynthia Bond, was published last April to positive reviews and modest sales. The book had 20,000 copies in print - until Oprah Winfrey announced that Ruby was her new book club pick and her latest acquisition for Harpo Films. Now Penguin Random House is printing 250,000 copies of the paperback edition. "I found the language and descriptions so vividly compelling," Oprah said, "that sometimes I would have to take a breath and repeat the sentences out loud." A Texas native and former actor with New York's Negro Ensemble Company, Bond now teaches therapeutic writing to at-risk youth in Los Angeles.
- 2/11/2015
- by Meredith Maran, @meredithmaran
- PEOPLE.com
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