Ruth -- Kate Riley, Hardcover
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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.
Ruth -- Kate Riley, Hardcover
$29.00
Author: Kate Riley
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 8/19/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75 lbs
Size: 8.3" H x 5.5" L x 1.1" W
ISBN: 9780593715949