![]() ![]() "Every time I gave up on the book, she was there to encourage me," Bond said.īond grew up listening to her mother - a nationally recognized academician - tell stories about her childhood home, a small, all-black East Texas town. Huddled in a rear office in the Barnes & Noble at the Fountains at Farah, Bond acknowledged the much-celebrated novel might never have been published had it not been for her 75-year-old mother, Zelema Harris. ![]() The East Texas native stopped in El Paso as part of a Texas tour that also took her to Dallas, Houston and Beaumont. "This was my dream, but there were a lot of times when I gave up on this dream," Bond said in a recent interview. Los Angeles author Cynthia Bond struggled for more than 15 years to produce "Ruby," the debut that Oprah Winfrey blessed and put on the nation's literary radar. ![]()
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