A LitHub most anticipated book of 2025‘It will become an underground classic’ New York Times‘A wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portrait… Standout’ Wall Street Journal‘An irresistibly smart and funny novel’ Jenny Offill, author of Weather, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize For FictionRuth 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 wea...
