What happened to Ruthy Ramirez?
This powerful novel tells the gripping story of a Puerto Rican family from Staten Island. Their long-missing sister might be alive and participating in a reality show. The family does everything they can to find her.
Awards and Recognition
Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, longlist Aspen Words Literary Prize, and featured in various book clubs such as Belletrist and Readers Digest.
Summary
The Ramirez women live in the shadow of Ruthy's disappearance. Twelve years after her vanishing without a trace, the eldest sister Jessica sees a woman named Ruby with a distinctive beauty mark on the reality show Catfight. Together with her sister Nina, they plan a search, supported by their mother Dolores and her friend Irene. This search leads to a confronting family journey, in which they face the pain from the past and try to embrace the future.
Themes
- Family relationships and generational conflicts
- Violence, colonialism, and racial identity
- Loss, processing, and hope
Language and Suitability
This novel is written in English and suitable for advanced readers (level C1–C2). It is an excellent learning tool for self-study and literature education.
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