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Gilead
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Gilead

Gilead, Book 1

by Marilynne Robinson

Recommended by Barack Obama and Frank Chimero

Recommended by Barack Obama and Frank Chimero

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Contemporary, Most Recommended Books, and Spirituality.

Twentyfour years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beau...

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Contemporary, Most Recommended Books, and Spirituality.

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