A Widow for One Year

    One night when she was four, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parent's bedroom. She thought it was a dream, just like the time she saw a lion in her backyard. It wasn't until years later that she would find out that the lovemaking was real and that it was actually coming from her own parents. When we meet Ruth Cole in this story, she is only four years old, unaware of the troubles ahead of her. Though many people think she is difficult and self-contradictory, we won't forget her when the book ends.