Glory, the youngest of the eight Boughton children, returns to Gilead, Iowa, in 1957 to care for her dying father, Robert, a former Presbyterian pastor, and the two are soon joined by Jack, the prodigal son of the family who left town twenty years earlier in the midst of scandal, and together they edge toward understanding, forgiveness, and healing.
year: 2008, 2009, 2020
call number/section: 1000
subjects: clergy, fiction, children of clergy, reminiscing, conflict of generations, fathers and daughters, iowa, fiction, fathers and sons, families, father-daughter relationship, father-son relationship, family life, domestic fiction, christian fiction, domestic fiction, christian fiction
Editions
Robinson, Marilynne
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008)
Glory, the youngest of the eight Boughton children, returns to Gilead, Iowa, in 1957 to care for her dying father, Robert, a former Presbyterian pastor, and the two are soon joined by Jack, the prodigal son of the family who left town twenty years earlier in the midst of scandal, and together they edge toward understanding, forgiveness, and healing.
Schools: 1
Robinson, Marilynne
Picador (2009)
Glory, the youngest of the eight Boughton children, returns to Gilead, Iowa, in 1957 to care for her dying father, Robert, a former Presbyterian pastor, and the two are soon joined by Jack, the prodigal son of the family who left town twenty years earlier in the midst of scandal, and together they edge toward understanding, forgiveness, and healing.
Schools: 1
Robinson, Marilynne
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020)
Glory, the youngest of the eight Boughton children, returns to Gilead, Iowa, in 1957 to care for her dying father, Robert, a former Presbyterian pastor, and the two are soon joined by Jack, the prodigal son of the family who left town twenty years earlier in the midst of scandal, and together they edge toward understanding, forgiveness, and healing.
Schools: 1