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Written by Marilynne Robinson

Book #2 in the Gilead series

A prodigal son returns to his dying father's house, carrying secrets he cannot share.

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336 pages

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Glory Boughton, thirty-eight and heartbroken, comes home to Gilead, Iowa, to care for her dying father, a retired minister. Soon her brother Jack, the family's wayward son, returns after twenty years away, sober for now and guarded about the life he left behind. As Glory and Jack tend their father and circle each other warily, old wounds, family love and the hope of forgiveness come to the surface. A companion to Gilead, told from the Boughton household.

From the publisher

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009A 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEA New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year 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.

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