Literary Fiction · MelancholicGlory and Jack return to Gilead, Iowa, to live with their father, the Reverend Boughton
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Two grown children come back to their father's house in an Iowa town
Reverend Robert Boughton lives in Gilead, Iowa. His adult children Glory and Jack return home to live with him. The book is a companion novel to Gilead (2004): an independent work that covers the same period and revisits some of the same events from another perspective. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published it on September 2, 2008, and it was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.
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Who
Reverend Robert Boughton and his adult children, Glory and Jack.
World
Gilead, Iowa.
What makes it different
It is a companion to Gilead and tells overlapping events from another point of view. It is Robinson's third novel, after Housekeeping.
Feel
Quiet and contemplative.
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