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Ruth, August 2025
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Ruth
Kate Riley

A Novel

Penguin Press
August 2025
On Sale: August 19, 2025
256 pages
ISBN: 0593715942
EAN: 9780593715949
Kindle: B0DNL9V8RH
Hardcover / e-Book
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Christian Mystery | Romance Historical

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.

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