ABOUT
THE BOOK

A brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as Gilead, Marilynne

Robinson’s Pulitzer winning novel. The Reverend Boughton’s hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic carrying two decades worth of secrets, he is perpetually at odds with his traditionalist father, though he remains his most beloved child. As Jack tries to make peace with his father, he begins to forge an intense bond with his sister Glory, herself returning home with a broken heart and turbulent past. Home is a luminous and healing book about families, family secrets, and faith.