She comes from a loving home, but she comes to D.C. Ruby is 15, and when I started working on the novel, the thing that I knew about her was that she was beautiful, that she had a body that was shaped like a Coca-Cola bottle, and that her mother did not want her. JOHNSON: I think they have similarities as well. They have different backgrounds and interests, but I feel like they have some similarities, too. RASCOE: Tell us more about Ruby and Eleanor, whose lives eventually intersect. It's such a pleasure and an honor to be here. SADEQA JOHNSON: Thank you so much for having me. Sadeqa Johnson is the author of "The House Of Eve." She joins us now. They both fall in love with men who society says should be off limits to them. That's the backdrop for the new novel "The House Of Eve." It follows the lives of two young Black women, teenager Ruby trying to escape poverty in Philadelphia, and Eleanor, a student at Howard University trying to figure out how to fit in with the elites of Washington, D.C. The stolen glances, the butterflies in the stomach, the drama - but mix in the racism and misogyny of the 1950s, and that cute puppy love could easily become corrosive and dangerous.
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