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Marilynne Robinson · 2008 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Glory Boughton comes home to Gilead, Iowa, to nurse her dying father, a retired minister, and is joined by her prodigal brother Jack after twenty years away. It tells the story of the same summer as Gilead (2004), which is not held, from the other house.

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• companion to ↑ Gilead
  Marilynne Robinson · 2004 CE · Novel

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