" This was an interesting modern version of the biblical story of Ruth and Naomi. They live in Las Vegas, and Naomi's two sons (Mel & Lonnie) die on the same day (one to cancer and the other in a car wreck). Naomi (widow), Ruth (cocktail waitress), and Orpah (taxi dancer) travel to Moab, Utah to scatter the ashes of the two brothers at Dead Horse Point. Naomi feels the pull to go back to her Mennonite roots in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and refuses to return to Vegas. Orpah returns to Vegas, but Ruth (who had a horror of a childhood) decides to go with Naomi as she is looking for a place to call home. The first half of the book is the harrowing road trip they experience with very little money and in a beat-up old Impala on "its last legs". They finally arrive in Bethlehem with no money and a dead car. They take up residence in Naomi's vacant old homestead, and Ruth finds work in a farmer's market owned by Bo (Boaz) a man twice her age. There is an instant attraction between the two. Naomi is in jeopardy of losing the homestead to owed back taxes and to a dishonest uncle who is trying to acquire the land to sell to a conglomerate who wants to build a housing development. Can you tell by the synopsis why I gave it three stars? I must admit that, altho the plot sounds "interesting", the writing was descriptive and the road trip scenery well researched. But don't use this story to find biblical truth - it's not there. "
— Dyana, 12/31/2013