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Written by Marilynne Robinson, every character in Home attempts to answer the question "What does it mean to come home?" Glory Boughton, the baby of her family but now 38 and lovelorn, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Her wayward brother Jack also finds his way back, though his is an uneasy homecoming, reverberating with the scandal that drove him away 20 years earlier.
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