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In 'What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez,' a family struggles with a child's disappearance
Listen to the episodeA novel following the Ramirez family, a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island, still reeling from the disappearance of 13-year-old middle child Ruthy more than a decade earlier. When one of her sisters spots a woman on a reality TV show who might be Ruthy, the story explores how loss, violence, and spectacle shape the women in the family — and exposes the stark divide in how reality TV treats white women versus women of color.
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