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Ruth Galm

Biography

Ruth Galm

Ruth Galm was born and raised in San Jose, California, earned an MFA from Columbia University, and has been in San Francisco ever since. Her short fiction is forthcoming from Kenyon Review Online and has appeared in Indiana Review and on Joyland: a hub for short fiction. She is a past resident of the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. Into the Valley is her first novel.

Ruth Galm

Books by Ruth Galm

Into the Valley
by Ruth Galm - Culture, Fiction

INTO THE VALLEY opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flee San Francisco for the Central Valley. Caught between generations and unmarried at 30, B. doesn’t understand the new counterculture youths. She likes the dresses and kid gloves of her mother’s generation, but doesn’t fit into that world either. B. is beset by a disintegrative anxiety she calls “the carsickness,” and the only relief comes in handling illicit checks and driving endlessly through the valley.