| The All Souls Book Group reads… Marilynne Robinson’s Home |
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The next meeting of the All Souls Book Group will take place on Monday, March 15, when we will discuss Marilynne Robinson’s novel, Gilead (2004.) We will then meet on Monday, March 15th to discuss the novel a second time.
March schedule for the All Souls Book Group: “Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynnne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting work that takes place concurrently in the same Iowa town, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend. Glory Boughton, age 38, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone twenty years—comes home, too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of generations, about love and death and faith. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.” - From the inside flap of the first edition Copies of Home are now available at Accent on Books, on Merrimon Avenue, at reduced cost, thanks to parishioner Lewis Sorrels. In April we will be reading J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, discussing the novel on two Mondays, April 19th and 26th. Meeting locations TBA in the April “Connection.” Copies of Franny and Zooey are now available at Accent on Books, on Merrimon Ave. |