A woman seeks solace for herself, her daughter and their horse from a wrangler. THE BOOK OF RUTH, by Jane Hamilton.
Domestic violence rips apart a young woman's life in a tiny Illinois town.
A black man's search for his family's history. A murder trial recalls the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. A young woman is charged with killing her boyfriend. Scientists visit a Costa Rican jungle that is the breeding ground of dinosaurs. A man undertakes a potentially dangerous geological survey in Jamaica.