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Home (Gilead, #2) by Marilynne Robinson, Maggi-Meg Reed is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Home (Gilead, #2) about?

Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinsons Pulitzer Prizewinning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Amess closest friend. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jackthe prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty yearscomes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughtons most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home

Who reads Home (Gilead, #2)?

Author

Marilynne Robinson, Maggi-Meg Reed

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374299101

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.97 / 5 (14,147 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13