As the girls mature they attend business school together and talk about going to Chicago to work in advertising. An outcast, Ruth is gradually drawn out of her shell by the most popular girl in school, Imogene Lindgren, who turns out to be Amanda's abandoned baby and, thus, Ruth's half-sister. Amanda carries the guilt of having borne an illegitimate daughter and given her away on the night that her sister drowns.Īmanda eventually allows Ruth to start school. Amanda is determined to be Ruth's mother, which adds strain to her mental instability. Ruth retains memories of also drowning, something that Aunt Amanda strenuously (but falsely) denies. Ruth Sapphira Neumann is a quarrelsome three-year-old in an unstable household, her mother Mathilda having drowned mysteriously and her father Carl serving in the Army in Europe. Raised by Aunt Amanda, Ruth learns that her best friend is her half-sister, born the night of the tragedy, and that helps keep her from marrying the son of their common father. Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz gradually reveals how Ruth Sapphira Neumann, as she always believes, drowns at age three along with her mother Mathilda but is revived.
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