Home Lanier Ivester For centuries God's people awaited

For centuries God's people awaited the coming of a Savior

The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote

in the process

he wrote the tale in the following year

But in order to survive the road there and back again

Home Lanier Ivester For centuries God's people awaitedHailed as "incandescent," "magnificent," and "a literary miracle" (Entertainment Weekly), hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled by Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Now Robinson returns with a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as Gilead. The Reverend Boughton's hell raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic