Ruth is a storyteller, and a good one. These are stories of her life, the way she liked to tell them. Ruth was born, the youngest of seven children, in a small Wisconsin town that she grows to both love and resent. To anyone else, the events of her life might seem sad, funny, or a little of both. To Ruth they are simply her life. A dead father, a poor mother, lots of sisters, and one good friend. Life happens to Ruth, not the other way around. Then...