Ruth A Novel

Kate Riley

eBook - 2025

“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 tolerance for idle questions. Every morning she braids her hair and wears the same costume, sings the s...ame 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... more