Ruth A Novel

Kate Riley

eBook - 2025

Named a Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2025Named a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025Named 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 TimesIn 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... more