<p><b>A <i>New York Times </i>bestseller</b><br><br><b>Named a Best Book of 2020 by the <i>Australian Book Review</i>, <i>AV Club</i>, </b><b>Books-a-Million, <i>Electric Literature, Esquire</i>, the </b><b><i>Financial Times</i>, <i>Good Housekeeping </i>(UK), <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>Kirkus Reviews, Literary Hub</i>, the <i>New Statesman</i>, the New York Public Library, NPR, the <i>Star Tribune, </i>and <i>TIME</i></b><br><br><b>Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with <i>Jack, </i>the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction</b><br><br>Marilynne Robinson’s mythical world of Gilead, Iowa—the setting of her novels <i>Gilead</i>, <i>Home</i>, and <i>Lila</i>, and now <i>Jack</i>—and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. <i>Jack</i> is Robinson’s fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead’s Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now. <br><br>Robinson’s Gilead novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity.</p>