The Book of Ruth

PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: An “enthralling” novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family ( Entertainment Weekly ).   From the New York Times –bestselling author of The Excellent Lombards and A Map of the World , this is “an extraordinary story of a family’s disintegration [that] will be compared to Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres ” ( People ). It follows Ruth Grey, a young woman in a tiny Illinois farm town, who has lost her father to World War II, and constantly faces