A New York Times bestseller
Named a Best Book of 2020 by the Australian Book Review, AV
Club, Books-a-Million, Electric Literature, Esquire, the
Financial Times, Good Housekeeping (UK), The Guardian, Kirkus
Reviews, Literary Hub, the New Statesman, the New York Public
Library, NPR, the Star Tribune, and TIME
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National
Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest
novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction
Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her
novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved
characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of
American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred
world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In
it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of
Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high
school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Their deeply felt,
tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the
paradoxes of American life, then and now.
Robinson's Gilead novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two
National Book Critics Circle Awards, are a vital contribution to
contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national
character and humanity.
