Galm’s writing mimics the hyperreality of dreams, and the novel’s penetrative heat is palpable in descriptions of highway rest stops and “the flatness of the valley…the mountains in the far distance like figments behind the haze.”
In a review of Ruth Galm’s acclaimed debut, Into the Valley, ELLE magazine explores how the novel is a “subtle and complicated exploration of what it means to be a woman.”
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