Published: 24 May 2021

I have fallen in love with Marilynne Robinson through Gilead. The story and the writing just penetrated me and settled in my inner organs as some sort of a holy spirit. It felt like a balm enveloping me from the inside. Maybe Robinson would call this Grace, her omnipresent theme that every story and character is plunged in. My experience and reaction was such that I tried to save up the other books from this now tetralogy as I wanted to make sure I always have one available unread since I did not know whether any more would be forthcoming. And so it happened that I read Gilead and Home and had Lila on the shelf for years and then Jack came out...

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