Home (Oprah's Book Club)

Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames''s closest friend.

Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dyin...