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Home (Oprah's Book Club)

By Marilynne Robinson
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMESE NOTABLE BOOK WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

“[Robinson's] prose is our flight out, a keen instrument of vision and transcendence.” —O, the Oprah Magazine

Hailed 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.

A luminous and healing book about families, family secrets, and faith from one of America's most beloved and acclaimed authors.

The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic carrying two decades worth of secrets, he is perpetually at odds with his traditionalist father, though he remains his most beloved child. As Jack tries to make peace with his father, he begins to forge an intense bond with his sister Glory, herself returning home with a broken heart and turbulent past.

Home is a luminous and healing book about families, family secrets, and faith from one of America's most beloved and acclaimed authors.

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“took me ages to finish this because I didn't want to say goodbye to it. I just want to hug all of these characters and tell them they aren't alone. wah”
“Home-run. I cannot believe that something will have topped Lonesome Dove or Demon Copperhead this year, but this humble and beautiful follow-up to Gilead has absolutely done it. The last 15 pages absolutely broke me. Tender beyond anything I’ve ever read. Feelings, man. Robinson writes of familial ties and small town Iowa with such quiet reverence, I am practically knotted to the page in anticipation of every next quietness. Must read.”

About Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home (2008), winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila (2014), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack (2020), a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson’s nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things (2015), When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012), Absence of Mind (2010), The Death of Adam (1998), and Mother Country (1989). She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for “her grace and intelligence in writing.” Robinson lives in California

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