Gilead
Marilynne Robinson • 2004
Devastation Rating
literary fiction loss grief philosophical family
Our Take
A dying father writes letters his son will read when he is gone, and Robinson fills them with theology, memory, and the grief of knowing you will not see who someone becomes. Quiet and luminous and desolate in equal measure. One of the great novels about time running out.
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