Marilynne Robinsonโs Gilead seriesโGilead, Home, Lila, and Jackโis an intergenerational story about faith, race, and love radiating out from the interwoven histories of two families in a small Iowa town to encompass all of American life: our ideals and beliefs, our contradictions, failings, and hopes.
Over the past sixteen years, Marilynne Robinsonโs now-mythical world of Gilead, Iowa, and the beloved characters who inhabit it, have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world.
These four novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, among many other honors, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity. Robinsonโs meditation on the paradoxes of American life has given us โsomething we only occasionally find in the vastness of existence: a glimpse of eternityโ (Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal).