Review: What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez

I don’t think this is a perfect book, but I loved this story about a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island, New York. I found it a fantastic and moving first novel. The story revolves around the disappearance of Ruthy Ramirez, age 13, who never comes home after track practice. Ruthy’s mother, her older sister Jessica and her younger sister Nina are changed forever by her loss.

More than a decade later, Nina is a college graduate and has returned home when she and Jess see a girl on a reality show called Catfight. The girl, named Ruby, is ...