Hailed as "incandescent," "magnificent," and "a literary miracle" (Entertainment Weekly), hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled by Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Now Robinson returns with a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as Gilead. The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic carrying two decades worth of secrets, he is perpetually at odds with his traditionalist father, though he remains his most beloved child. As Jack tries to make peace with his father, he begins to forge an intense bond with his sister Glory, herself returning home with a broken heart and turbulent past. Home is a luminous and healing book about families, family secrets, and faith from one of America's most beloved and acclaimed authors. - Publisher.
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Profound explorations of faith, family, and spiritual transcendence in small-town American life define the fictional universe of the Gilead series, starting with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead. American novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson has built a celebrated body of work through quiet, deeply meditative prose that examines moral accountability, memory, and grace in everyday human existence.
Born Marilynne Summers on November 26, 1943, in Sandpoint, Idaho, she earned a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a PhD from the University of Washington. She published her debut novel, Housekeeping, in 1980, winning the PEN/Hemingway Award and earning a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991, where she mentored generations of writers before her retirement in the spring of 2016. Across her writing career, she has received numerous honours, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, the National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was also named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people.
Robinson's fiction and non-fiction feature luminous, plain-spoken language that balances rigorous intellectual thought with emotional resonance. Deeply informed by Calvinist theology and mainline Protestant traditions, her work uses religion as a framing mechanism to explore moral orientation, community, and human dignity. Her non-fiction works, including Mother Country (1989), The Death of Adam (1998), Absence of Mind (2010), When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012), and The Givenness of Things (2015), critique modern social thought and examine spiritual inwardness with clarity and ethical commitment.
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