TY - BOOK AU - Robinson,Marilynne TI - Jack T2 - Gilead SN - 9780374279301 AV - PS3568 .O3125 J33 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Conflict of generations KW - Fiction KW - Children of clergy KW - Fathers and sons KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Interracial dating KW - Families KW - Iowa KW - Christian fiction KW - lcgft KW - Religious fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - Domestic fiction N1 - Series information from www.goodreads.com N2 - Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now ER -