Marilynne Robinson: 'Jack'

Marilynne Robinson’s “Jack” is a book that Bookworms have been eager to read: the fourth volume of her multi-award-winning Gilead series. Here we witness characters who gain the ability to look into one another’s eyes and see their souls; it is a novel about love and freedom. These are characters in love despite obstacles from their families and the culture that surrounds them.

He was walking along almost beside her, two steps behind. She did not look back. She said, “I’m not talking to you.”

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Excerpted from Jack © 2020 Marilynne Robinson. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All rights reserved.