“It would never work out, but I’m in love with Ruth.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post “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 “Irresistibly smart and funny.” —Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation “The serenely weird testament of an unintentional heroine in an intentional community, and an act of novelistic grace that deserves not only cult status but its own religion.” —Joshua Cohen, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Netanyahus 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...
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“It would never work out, but I’m in love with Ruth.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post“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
“Irresistibly smart and funny.” —Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation
“The serenely weird testament of an unintentional heroine in an intentional community, and an act of novelistic grace that deserves not only cult status but its own religion.” —Joshua Cohen, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Netanyahus
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...