Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous tender voice of John Ames in Gilead Marilynne Robinsons Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jacks story. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family godson and namesake of John Ames gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father though he remains Boughtons most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead fleeing her own mistakes to care for their dying father. Brilliant loveable wayward Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with his father and his fathers old friend John Ames.