Synopsis
First published as "The Frogs are Still Singing" in 1988, this novel won 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel. It is the story of Ruth, who grows up and struggles to survive in small-town America. From the author of "A Map of the World".
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About the Author
Jane Hamilton s first novel, the prizewinning The Book of Ruth, was selected for Oprah Winfrey s influential Book Club, as was her second novel, A Map of the World and The Short History of a Prince was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives on an apple farm in Wisconsin.
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Pegged as the loser in a small-town family, Ruth grows up, unlovely and unloved - and in the shadow of her brilliant brother. With no ticket out of Honey Creek, she cleaves to her tough and bitter mother, May, and tries to keep the peace between her and Ruby, the sweet but slightly deranged man she marries and supports.
But when the precarious household erupts in violence, it is Ruth who is left to piece their story together - and she gets at the truth in a manner at once ferocious, hilarious and heartbreaking.
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