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). In Home, Jack restores the broken-down family car, an old DeSoto ...