A Virtuous Woman
Author: Kaye Gibbons
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. Gibbons provides a convincing portrait of two seemingly ill-matched people who somehow miraculously make a marriage…..Read More
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