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Bisexual Content: The main character (cisgender woman) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.
Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Many characters (including the bisexual character) are black and working-class.
Publisher's Summary: ...Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby Bell, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York...When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood...