![]() ![]() His reconnection with his godfather and namesake, Reverend John Ames does not proceed smoothly. ![]() Jack is not the only one with secrets in his past, and he and Glory form a bond. ![]() ![]() Her father is pleased to see this favoured child again, one who went from “a restless, distant, difficult boy†to what Jack himself admits: “….nothing but trouble…….I create a kind of displacement around myself as I pass through the world, which can fairly be called troubleâ€. A letter arrives, and Glory worries about the effect it will have on her father: “…the note might really be from Jack, but upsetting somehow, written from a ward for the chronically vexatious, the terminally remissâ€.Įventually, her disreputable brother Jack, an unemployed alcoholic, returns home after twenty years of virtual silence. Thirty-eight-year-old Glory Boughton, with a failed engagement behind her, returns to Gilead to look after her ailing father, Robert. This book focusses on Reverend Robert Boughton (closest friend of Reverend John Ames), and his family. Home is the second book in the Gilead series by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Marilynne Robinson, and is set in Gilead, Iowa at the same time as the first book. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding†€œYou must forgive in order to understand. ![]()
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