{"product_id":"ruth-kate-riley","title":"Ruth By Riley","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed a Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed a Washington Post Top 10 Fiction Book of 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by Vulture, Marie Claire and Vanity Fair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I loved RUTH.\"—Lorde\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It would never work out, but I’m in love with Ruth.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portrait … [a] standout.”—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49236417937643,"sku":"9780593715956","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2652\/3794\/files\/9780593715956.jpg?v=1786821795","url":"https:\/\/www.maggiemaesbooks.com\/products\/ruth-kate-riley","provider":"Maggie Mae's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}