The Book

Get to Know Ruby July

Do you have a minute? If so, Ruby July would like to tell you a few things about:

  1. The Quercus rubra (the oak tree).
  2. Black holes.
  3. A variety of plants and animals.
  4. The molecular composition of the world’s most perfect food: cheese.
  5. Basically, science. All of it.
  6. And oh yeah! Also, normal middle school stuff! Whatever that is!

If you don’t have a minute, that’s okay. She will wear these facts on a series of hand-printed t-shirts for you to consume at a more convenient time. Because that’s the Ruby July guarantee.

The Book: The Totally True Life of Ruby July

Things in Ruby July’s life are going just grand, thank you. Spiffy, even — sparkly, spangly, and worthy of every high five any person is willing to administer within a 5-mile radius. 

Or at least they would be, if only her sister would write her back from boarding school, and her best friend hadn’t decided to stop talking to her, and her parents didn’t fight all the time and then suddenly stop talking when she entered the room with looks of dog-like guilt on their faces like, “What? Us? There’s no tension in this room whatsoever. And we definitely were not licking the dishwasher.” 

Or, if all of them, every last one, didn’t act like they were hiding something from her. Something too big and too terrible for little old Ruby July to hear. 

Something that might just so happen to explain everything to Ruby about why her life feels so terrible all the time.

Something that might just make sense of The Totally True Life of Ruby July.

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