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Ruth
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ISBN10: 0593715950
ISBN13: 9780593715956
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.02 Depth: 8.17
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593715956
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.02 Depth: 8.17
Language: English
Named a Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2025 Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025 Named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture, Marie Claire and Vanity Fair I loved RUTH.--Lorde It would never work out, but I'm in love with Ruth.--Ron Charles, The Washington Post A wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portrait ... [a] standout.--Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
There are inklings of greatness in Kate Riley's first novel... I suspect it will become an underground classic.--Dwight Garner, The New York Times In this mesmerizing and profound novel, the arc of a woman's life in a devout, insular community challenges our deepest assumptions about what infuses life with meaning. Ruth is raised in a snow globe of Christian communism, a world without private property, television, or tolerance for idle questions. Every morning she braids her hair and wears the same costume, sings the same breakfast song in a family room identical to every other family room in the community; every one of these moments is meant to be a prayer, but to Ruth they remain puzzles. Her life is seen in glimpses through childhood, marriage, and motherhood, as she tries to manage her own perilous curiosity in a community built on holy mystery. Is she happy? Might this in fact be happiness? Ruth immerses us in an experience that challenges our most fervent beliefs.
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