"For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany--where she fell in love and had a child decades earlier--to confront her past at her former mother-in-law's funeral. It's 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nation's horrific recent history, to study art. Soon she's embroiled in a scene dramatically different from the one at home, thanks...

Based on the Book of Ruth, Naomi's sons and husband have died and left her alone; her daughter-in-law, Ruth, vows to never leave her side as they journey back to Naomi's childhood home in West Virginia.