CrackpotsWhen we first meet Ruby Reese shes a spunky kid in a cowgirl hat, tap dancing her way through a slightly off kilter 1950s childhood. With an insomniac mother and a demolitions expert father, her entire family is what the residents of her small town would call \"a bunch of crackpots.\" Despite the dramas of her upbringing, Ruby matures into a creative, introspective, and wholly beguiling woman. But her adulthood is marked by complex relationships and

as well as a never-before-published final chapter presenting Thompson’s \"Five Universal Truths\" of human interaction

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