Rosa Guy (1922–2012) was a Trinidad-born American writer and a cofounder of the Harlem Writers Guild. She wrote novels for adults and younger readers, including The Friends, Ruby, Edith Jackson, and My Love, My Love. Her fiction frequently centers Black girls and young women navigating family, friendship, race, sexuality, and migration.
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Years covered1976–1985
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Ruby Cathy is 18, beautiful, and desperately lonely. Transplanted from her warm, sunny home in the West Indies to crowded, urban Harlem, she is forced to live under her father's stern, unyielding rule after her mother's death, Ruby feels left without friends, without comfort and without love. Then she meets Daphne Duprey, who is cool, calm, cultured, sophisticated and refined - everything Ruby is not. Together, Ruby and Daphne build a relationship that gives each young woman a new understanding of strength, friendship and love.
Print · Puffin · 1989-01 · English ISBN 9780140328592
Print · Random House Children's Books · 1991-12 · English ISBN 9780440211303
Print · Just Us Books · 2005 · English ISBN 9781933491042
Rosa Guy's tropical retelling of "The Little Mermaid" is the gorgeous, tragic love story of Désirée, a beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself to the handsome, aristocratic young man whose life she has saved. When his upper-class fami-ly feels that Désirée's skin is too dark and her family too poor for a boy destined for power and wealth, Désirée proves that she is willing to give everything for love. This lovely reprint will break your heart. Born in Trinidad, Rosa Guy has written 15 novels and has received the Coretta Scott King Award, and The New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year citation.
Print · Holt, Rinehart, and Winston · 1985 · English ISBN 9780030005077
Print · Virago Upstarts · 1987 · English ISBN 9780860688044
Print · Hutchinson/Virago · 1988 · English ISBN 9780091824327
Print · H. Holt · 1991 · English ISBN 9780805016598
Print · Coffee House Press · 2001 · English ISBN 9781566891318
