Ruth, (Paperback)

<b>Named a <i>Wall Street Journal </i>Top 10 Book of 2025 <p>Named a <i>Washington Post </i>Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025 </p><p>Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>Vulture, Marie Claire </i>and <i>Vanity Fair</i> </p><p>"I loved RUTH."--Lorde </p><p>"It would never work out, but I'm in love with Ruth."--Ron Charles, <i>The Washington Post </i></p><p>"A wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portrait ... [a] standout."<i>--</i>Sam Sacks<i>, Wall Street Journal<br></i><br>"There are inklings of greatness in Kate Riley's first novel... I suspect it will become an underground classic."--Dwight Garner, <i>The New York Times</i> </p></b><p><b>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.</b> </p><p>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? <i>Ruth</i> immerses us in an experience that challenges our most fervent beliefs.</p>

• Ruth, (Paperback)
• Author: Riverhead Books
• ISBN: 9780593715956
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-08-18
• Page Count: 256