Title: Jack
Description: Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now.
Subjects: American literature, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2020-10-18, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, religious, Fathers and sons, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Iowa, fiction, Dating (social customs), fiction, Domestic fiction, Religious fiction, Psychological fiction, Conflict of generations, Fiction, Children of clergy, Fathers and sons, Man-woman relationships, Interracial dating, Families, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, family life