Passwords are now required to access your library account. To create a password, select "Reset my Password" from the Login screen (email address required). For further assistance, please contact the library.

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Your Rating: 0 stars
Star rating for

Average user rating: 2.5 stars
User ratings:
5 star
 
(0)
4 star
 
(0)
3 star
 
(1)
2 star
 
(1)
1 star
 
(0)
Published:
Grand Central Publishing 2023
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
ISBN:
9781538725986
Status:
Available from OverDrive

Description

A powerful novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and ass-kicking" (Jamie Ford) about a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and sets out to bring her home.
Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize · March Indie Next Pick · Belletrist, Phenomenal, Page & Pairing, and Readers Digest book club pick 

The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left eye is instantly recognizable. Could it be Ruthy, after all this time?
The years since Ruthy's disappearance haven't been easy on the Ramirez family. It’s 2008, and their mother, Dolores, still struggles with the loss, Jessica juggles a newborn baby with her hospital job, and Nina, after four successful years at college, has returned home to medical school rejections and is forced to work in the mall folding tiny bedazzled thongs at the lingerie store.
After seeing maybe‑Ruthy on their screen, Jessica and Nina hatch a plan to drive to where the show is filmed in search of their long‑lost sister. When Dolores catches wind of their scheme, she insists on joining, along with her pot-stirring holy roller best friend, Irene. What follows is a family road trip and reckoning that will force the Ramirez women to finally face the past and look toward a future—with or without Ruthy in it.
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez is a vivid family portrait, in all its shattered reality, exploring the familial bonds between women and cycles of generational violence, colonialism, race, and silence, replete with snark, resentment, tenderness, and, of course, love.
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Elle • USA Today • Today.com • Ms. Magazine • Good Housekeeping • Bustle • The Week • Goodreads • Bookriot • Pop Culturely • SheReads • Litreactor • Electric Lit • The Mary Sue • People Español • Zibby Mag • Debutiful • Her Campus
 
Best Books of March by Shondaland • Ms. Magazine • Popsugar • Bookriot • Debutiful • Powell’s Book Blog • TIME 100 must-read book of 2023 • Booklist Top 10 debut of 2023 • Library Journal Best Pop Fiction of 2023 • The Latinidad List​ Best Debut Novel of 2023 • Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 • Good Housekeeping Must-Read Book of 2023 • Today.com Standout Book of 2023
Includes a Reading Group Guide.

Also in This Series

Formats

Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.

More Like This

Other Editions and Formats

More Copies In Prospector

Loading Prospector Copies...

More Details

Street Date:
03/07/2023
Language:
English
ASIN:
B0B5SFL5ND

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

Claire Jimenez. (2023). What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez. Grand Central Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Claire Jimenez. 2023. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez. Grand Central Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Claire Jimenez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez. Grand Central Publishing, 2023.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Claire Jimenez. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez. Grand Central Publishing, 2023.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

Copy Details

LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection11
Pitkin County Library00

Staff View

Grouped Work ID:
ab5cbd4b-1cd5-0d3f-ab0d-dfeb3b4d2398
Go To Grouped Work

API Extraction Dates

Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Nov 22, 2023 11:24:22
Date Updated:
Nov 22, 2023 11:24:22
Last Metadata Check:
Oct 27, 2024 11:39:07
Last Metadata Change:
Oct 06, 2024 11:53:14
Last Availability Check:
Oct 27, 2024 11:39:16
Last Availability Change:
Oct 11, 2024 19:34:04
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Oct 30, 2024 09:52:25

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/{8B04D09F-9D35-4553-807C-3FF719B42354}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0017-1/{8B04D09F-9D35-4553-807C-3FF719B42354}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0017-1/{8B04D09F-9D35-4553-807C-3FF719B42354}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0017-1/{8B04D09F-9D35-4553-807C-3FF719B42354}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781538725986
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B0B5SFL5ND
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781538725986
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781538725962
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Claire Jimenez
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
dateAdded
2023-11-22T22:09:00Z
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=162&titleID=9093555
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Marmot Library Network (CO)
          • id: 1201
sortTitle
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
crossRefId
9093555
id
8B04D09F-9D35-4553-807C-3FF719B42354
starRating
3.4

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/{8B04D09F-9D35-4553-807C-3FF719B42354}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0017-1/{8B04D09F-9D35-4553-807C-3FF719B42354}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0017-1/{8B04D09F-9D35-4553-807C-3FF719B42354}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0017-1/{8B04D09F-9D35-4553-807C-3FF719B42354}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
formats
      • fileName: WhatHappenedtoRuthyR_9781538725986_9093555
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 2412409
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781538725986
      • rights:
            • type: Copying
            • value: 0
            • type: Printing
            • value: 0
            • type: Lending
            • value: 0
            • type: ReadAloud
            • value: 0
            • type: ExpirationRights
            • value: 0
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • onSaleDate: 3/7/2023
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8b04d09f-9d35-4553-807c-3ff719b42354&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: WhatHappenedtoRuthyR_9093555
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B0B5SFL5ND
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 3/7/2023
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8b04d09f-9d35-4553-807c-3ff719b42354&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: WhatHappenedtoRuthyR_9781538725986_9093555
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781538725986
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 3/7/2023
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8b04d09f-9d35-4553-807c-3ff719b42354&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Jimenez, Claire
      • name: Claire Jimenez
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Literature
publishDate
2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
publishDateText
03/07/2023
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781538725962
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription

A powerful novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and ass-kicking" (Jamie Ford) about a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and sets out to bring her home.
Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize · March Indie Next Pick · Belletrist, Phenomenal, Page & Pairing, and Readers Digest book club pick 

The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she...

isOwnedByCollections
True
title
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
fullDescription

A powerful novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and ass-kicking" (Jamie Ford) about a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and sets out to bring her home.
Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize · March Indie Next Pick · Belletrist, Phenomenal, Page & Pairing, and Readers Digest book club pick 

The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left eye is instantly recognizable. Could it be Ruthy, after all this time?
The years since Ruthy's disappearance haven't been easy on the Ramirez family. It’s 2008, and their mother, Dolores, still struggles with the loss, Jessica juggles a newborn baby with her hospital job, and Nina, after four successful years at college, has returned home to medical school rejections and is forced to work in the mall folding tiny bedazzled thongs at the lingerie store.
After seeing maybe‑Ruthy on their screen, Jessica and Nina hatch a plan to drive to where the show is filmed in search of their long‑lost sister. When Dolores catches wind of their scheme, she insists on joining, along with her pot-stirring holy roller best friend, Irene. What follows is a family road trip and reckoning that will force the Ramirez women to finally face the past and look toward a future—with or without Ruthy in it.
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez is a vivid family portrait, in all its shattered reality, exploring the familial bonds between women and cycles of generational violence, colonialism, race, and silence, replete with snark, resentment, tenderness, and, of course, love.
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Elle • USA Today • Today.com • Ms. Magazine • Good Housekeeping • Bustle • The Week • Goodreads • Bookriot • Pop Culturely • SheReads • Litreactor • Electric Lit • The Mary Sue • People Español • Zibby Mag • Debutiful • Her Campus
 
Best Books of March by Shondaland • Ms. Magazine • Popsugar • Bookriot • Debutiful • Powell’s Book Blog • TIME 100 must-read book of 2023 • Booklist Top 10 debut of 2023 • Library Journal Best Pop Fiction of 2023 • The Latinidad List​ Best Debut Novel of 2023 • Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 • Good Housekeeping Must-Read Book of 2023 • Today.com Standout Book of 2023
Includes a Reading Group Guide.

sortTitle
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
crossRefId
9093555
popularity
1961
publisher
Grand Central Publishing
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1ByAAAAA2r/products/8b04d09f-9d35-4553-807c-3ff719b42354/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
    • shareInLibby:
        • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=s8GKABz28GI
        • type: text/HTML
id
8b04d09f-9d35-4553-807c-3ff719b42354
starRating
3.4
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC019000
      • description: Fiction / Literary
      • code: FIC056000
      • description: FICTION / Hispanic & Latino / General
      • code: FIC045020
      • description: Fiction / Family Life / Siblings