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The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Sandy Hogarth (view source)
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* '''BB: What does the title signify about Ruth?'''
SH: The title relates to the glass figurine on page 57, ‘an ''an exquisite glass girl, a dancer with a straight back and proud posture… a brittle beauty… it carries the desert within it.’ '' It is given to Ruth by an old man in the desert, a glass blower who has lost his son. Ruth is in the Australian desert, seeking healing from her own loss. It is symbolic of wonder and the sand of the desert, and represents the vulnerability and fragility of the young Ruth.
She carries it with her everywhere and it is there, at the very end.