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Marilynne Robinson

★★★★☆+ from 10,001 to 50,000 ratings

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One of America's most acclaimed living authors, Marilynne Robinson, revisits the characters from her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, in this "impossibly rich and beautiful new novel" (San Francisco Chronicle)

A New York Times Bestseller

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

A Los Angeles Times Best of Fiction of the Year

A San Francisco Chronicle Best book of the Year



Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father, Reverend Robert Boughton. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge, and trying to make peace with his turbulent past. When he was a child he gained a reputation as artful and devious; as a young man he brought continual shame to the family; and now, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father--though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake, and the narrator of Robinson's previous novel Gilead. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith.


Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1250784026
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 10,001 to 50,000 ratings
"Remarkable… an even stronger accomplishment than Gilead." --Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books

"An anguished pastoral, a tableau of decency and compassion that is also an angry and devastating indictment of moral cowardice and unrepentant, unacknowledged sin…. Beautiful." --A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review

"Rich and resonant…Gilead and Home fit with and around each other perfectly, each complete on its own, yet enriching and enlivening the other. But both are books of such beauty and power." --Emily Barton, Los Angeles Times

"Marilynne Robinson is so powerful a writer that she can reshape how we read." --Mark Athitakis, Chicago Sun-Times

"Above all, there is the precision and lyrical power of Robinson's language…Home begins simply, eschewing obvious verbal fineness, and slowly grows in luxury--its last fifty pages are magnificently moving…. Powerful." --James Wood, The New Yorker

"When Marilynne Robinson writes a new book, it's an event." --Pat MacEnulty, Charlotte Observer


MARILYNNE ROBINSON is the author of the novels Gilead, Housekeeping, and two books of nonfiction, Mother Country and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.