num_pages: 384
description: Maureen, a young black girl torn between her mother, the notorious Mama Ruby, whose healing powers and reputation cause people to fear her, and the harsh realities of life, comes of age, in a powerful, evocative tale set in a migrant labor camp in the bayous of the Florida Everglades. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Upper Room
titlecomplete: The Upper Room
genres: Drama, Adult Fiction, African American, Family, Romance, Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Urban, Fiction
ratings_count: 3419
series: Mama Ruby
publisher: Dafina