Status Updates From Gilead

“Marilynne Robinson didn’t just “write a man”; she wrote a mind at rest, a consciousness allowed to wander without performance. You’re not reading a character study. You’re eavesdropping on a soul learning how to say goodbye.”

To be a woman writing entirely in a man’s voice, to make it feel like his genuine stream of consciousness flowing from one random idea or memory to the next whether it’s connected or not, to seamlessly write of a time and place and experience not your own… she really pulls you in.