Synopses & Reviews
Plenty of girls have trouble relating to their parents. Few have to turn to a dictionary for help. Ruby Tuesday Sweet keeps a battered webster's by her side -- but when her dad tunes in to eight baseball games at a time on his wall of TVs, his talk of parlays and chalks and spreads keeps Ruby mystified. Then the Dodgers win the World Series, Ruby Tuesday's dad wins a bet, and his bookie is murdered. Ruby finds herself on the run to Las Vegas with her long-lost rock-and-roll mom in a race against the thugs who want Mr. Sweet's winning ticket.
A rare breakthrough novel, Ruby Tuesdayis the story of a gambling father, a card-shark grandmother, and a family of women inhabiting a Vegas casino. At the center of it all is the girl who never noticed they were different.
About the Author
Jennifer Anne Koglergraduated cum laude from Princeton University in 2003 with a B.A. in English. While at Princeton she wrote Ruby Tuesday, which began as her senior thesis and became her first published novel. She is the youngest sibling to six brothers and a sister; a longtime fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers; and an annual participant in the Kogler family Christmas low-stakes poker tournament. She lives in California, where she was born and raised.