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Jack

Jack

Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

John Ames Boughton — the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister — falls in love with Della Miles, a Black schoolteacher, in 1950s St. Louis, where an interracial relationship is against the law. Set apart from the other Gilead novels' Iowa setting, the book follows Jack and Della's fragile bond as they struggle against social codes, family expectations, and a legal system built to keep them apart.

About the author

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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson (born November 26, 1943, in Sandpoint, Idaho) is an American novelist and essayist. Her novels include Housekeeping (1980) and Gilead (2004), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, along with its related novels Home (2008), Lila (2014) and Jack (2020). She taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1991 until her retirement in 2016 and received the National Humanities Medal in 2012.