Home - A Novel
BY MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Brief Description:
Companion to Robinson's "Gilead", "Home" takes place concurrently in the same town, this time in the household of Rev. Robert Boughton. Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Her brother, Jack - the family's prodigal son, gone for 20 years - comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with trouble. A ne'er do-well, Jack still remains Boughton's most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, & wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with his godfather & namesake. "Home" is a moving & healing book about families, family secrets, and passing generations, about love & death & faith.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2008 336 PP. Cloth
$25.00
(in stock)