![]() ![]() She is sent to live with her older sister, who hasn't seen her in ten years. ![]() With Ruby seven months away from her eighteenth birthday, child services stepped in. She went to work and school and lived alone for months before her landlords realized what was going on. When a week turned into two, then three, then a month, Ruby knew her mom wasn't coming back. Ruby became used to her mom disappearing for a few days now and then. The older Ruby got, the more her mother depended on her - and on substances. Ruby's mother, preferring to drown her sorrows in alcohol than deal with them head-on, made her daughter give her excuses to visitors, landlords, and bosses. Finally, they find a little yellow house to rent. They lived in random places and cramped spaces above other people's garages. Ruby's definition of family is about to change, and she's not quite sure what that means.įor years, Ruby and her mother moved from apartment to apartment. ![]() 7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:ĥ.0 out of 5 stars Lost and Found, April 22, 2008Īsk twenty people to define "family," and you'll get twenty different definitions. ![]()
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