Finding Ruth: A Daughter's Quest to Discover Her Mother's Past

In my interview with Pat Rullo at" Speak Up Talk Radio" last week, she was especially interested to learn what prompted me to write "Finding Ruth." After summarizing my mom's life and how finding the cover photo sparked the need to understand what her life was like from her POV, I got the urge to read her story again. My mind has a tendency to stoke doubt about my books once they've been published and put out for public scrutiny, so I was pleasantly surprised by the job I did in fleshing out Rut

I won Finding Ruth as a Goodreads giveaway. At first I had a difficult time getting into Ruth's story because it felt a little bit slow paced. The more I started reading Ruth's story, I started to understand just how complex her life must have been with everything she has gone through. Naturally, there were times where I was wondering how Ruth could treat her children the way that she did, and why she made her not so great relationship choices. By the end of the book though, I saw a woman who al

4 StarsFinding Ruth by Cynthia Hamilton is a real life story about the author’s own mother. As her mother succumbed to Alzheimer’s, Ms. Hamilton realized that there were parts of her mother’s life, and aspects of her mother, that she really didn’t know- so she set about discovering the woman underneath it all. This story was emotional, thought-provoking, and full of life’s complexities- with dubious choices, strength, spirit, hard work, resilience, perseverance, ups and downs, heartache, difficu