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Marilynne Robinson.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008.
- 325 p. ; 22 cm.
Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain