Book Discussion: Home by Marilynne Robinson

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Our Feb 21, 2023 discussion is on "Home" by Marilynne Robinson

About the book: Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 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, Ames’s closest friend. 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. 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. 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.