Ruth in Shadow and in Light: A Novel

For fans of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere, a novel of devastating family secrets and a young Jewish woman whose search for truth—and her relationships with two very different men—leads her to discover the complex and redeeming power of love.

In a fine Brooklyn brownstone in the mid–20th century, Ruth and her brothers are raised by their Eastern-European Jewish father, along with a spinster aunt and bachelor uncle. Her father, a widower and respected physician, is proud to have risen f...