Two widows on one road.
The book of Ruth is four short chapters. It begins with a famine, a family that leaves Bethlehem for Moab, and a widow named Naomi who decides to go home.
Her daughter-in-law Ruth, a Moabite, goes with her. Scripture gives that journey almost no room: they went on, it says, until they came to Bethlehem.
This novel lives in the space around those words. Who were these two women on the road? What did they carry, and fear, and say to each other? What does it cost a foreigner to follow an older woman into a land that is not hers?
It is historical fiction, written to send readers back to the book of Ruth, never to replace it. See how fact and fiction are kept apart.
