false 36839810 1499691 2924318 0374299102 9780374299101 543 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255598835m/2924318.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2924318.Home_A_Novel 3.95 1524 Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that transpires concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend.</div><div> </div><div>Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. 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 a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.</div><div> </div><div>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 Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake.</div><div> </div><div>Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.</div></div>

What do you do about people that you love but constantly disappoint you? That's one of the topics that this novel treats.

A semi-sequel to Gilead... all about what the Prodigal Son might REALLY be like.
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