Ruth Simon is young, beautiful, aloof -- and always hungry. After starving herself to the brink of death as a teenager, she has overcome her battle with an eating disorder, but she hasn"t filled the emotional void which provoked it. The simple act of eating remains a torment.Her lover, Joseph, is a young man adrift, guilt-ridden over his older sister"s suicide at the age of sixteen. Determined to save Ruth, he sets out to unravel the mystery of her obsession with food and come to terms with his own lingering scars.Eve"s Apple is a beautiful love story at the heart of which lies a provocative probe into varieties of hunger -- for intimacy, knowledge, and love.