Time is going. I’ll be 82. Gotta go." The novel Home is a fragment of the classic Gilead series of Marilynne Robinson. The background of the book is set in 1956 in a fictional rural area of Iowa.

A primordial sun also shines upon Jack Boughton, the prodigal son of Robinson’s Gilead quartet (Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack) ...

It’s impossible, though, to contain her in any category. In 2004 Robinson published Gilead, which won the Pulitzer Prize, an astonishing outcome, given its subject. Gilead, perhaps the best ...