It was a cathartic experienceand she didn't want to keep it all to herself. 'I didn't even know it was a book, I just thought I was doing a writing exercise,' she said.īut it was much more than a writing exercise. Cloaked in authenticity, Ruby is unlike anything else out there right now. It is so much a part of who she is that Bond has decided to share parts of her past with the world. 'It's really like a great thorn gets wedged into your heart. To this day, her aunt's killer has not been named. The history of that day has seeped into her bones, and it's a tale her family has never fully recovered from. It's a story of the heart rooted in deep tragedy.īond's aunt was involved with a white man in the 1930s and was subsequently murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. It's a love story of the heart,' she said.

Love, heartbreak, loss, and survival make up the meat of the story. Sprinkled throughout the bindings are memoriesboth real and imaginary. Her story is far from a picnic in the park on a sunny Sunday afternoon, but she's making her offerings known in a new book called Ruby.

Openly bisexual author Cynthia Bond has crawled on her hands and knees through the trenches of turmoilfirst as a child of abuse herself and then, heroically, as a fortress of comfort for the young suffering from addiction.

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