![]() ![]() As with Gilead, the action is tiny, a series of daily chores and conversations made heavy by the weight of the past and by Robinson’s near-miraculous attention to the intricate workings of conscience. Glory has moved home to care for her father and, as it turns out, for her alcoholic older brother, Jack, the long-lost prodigal son. ![]() The two novels share a plot, but Home takes the perspective of Glory Boughton, the 38-year-old daughter of Gilead’s retired Presbyterian minister. Now, a mere four years later, she returns to the town of Gilead with Home (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux September 2). In Gilead, her Pulitzer Prize–winning return to fiction, she inhabited the austere voice of an aging Congregationalist pastor in 1956 Iowa. Named for John Ames, his godfather, Jack struggles to make peace with his past, marked by alcoholism and failed attempts at conventional living. Soon her brother, Jack, the familys prodigal son, joins her after twenty years away. In the meantime, she produced a critique of British nuclear-energy policy, and a collection of essays ( The Death of Adam) that stands as a sturdy counterweight to the current wave of belligerent atheism. Home begins as Glory Boughton returns to Gilead at the age of thirty-eight to care for her dying father. ![]() Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, Housekeeping, in 1980 it would be 24 years until her next one. ![]()
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