Ruth each chapter includes illustrations by

each chapter includes illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook

ages past the capriciousness of youth

in Eloraton

watchful gaze of Jack Dean

a forgotten moment in history when ten thousand Jews fled to Texas in the leadup to World War I

Ruth each chapter includes illustrations by"It would never work out, but I'm in love with Ruth." Ron Charles, The Washington Post "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 "Irresistibly smart and funny." Jenny Offill, author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation "The serenely weird testament of an unintentional heroine in an intentional community, and an act of novelistic grace that deserves