Jack: A Novel

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A New York Times bestseller

Named a Best Book of 2020 by the Australian Book Review, Books-a-Million, Esquire, the Financial Times, Good Housekeeping (UK),The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, the New Statesman, the New York Public Library, NPR, the Star Tribune, and TIME

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction

Marilynne Robinsons mythical world of Gilead, Iowathe setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jackand 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 Robinsons fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gileads 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.

Robinsons Gilead novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity.