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$5.88The Story
A LitHub most anticipated book of 2025
āIt will become an underground classicā New York Times
āA wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portraitā¦ Standoutā Wall Street Journal
āAn irresistibly smart and funny novelā Jenny Offill, author of Weather, shortlisted for the Womenās Prize For Fiction
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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A LitHub most anticipated book of 2025
āIt will become an underground classicā New York Times
āA wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portraitā¦ Standoutā Wall Street Journal
āAn irresistibly smart and funny novelā Jenny Offill, author of Weather, shortlisted for the Womenās Prize For Fiction
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.
