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Jan 22, 2015WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
If Robinson’s Housekeeping, written 25 years ago, touched you, you will truly be moved by her latest novel Gilead. Reverend John Ames, knowing that he is near death, writes a letter for his young son to read when he is older. Ames searches through his past, resurrecting family generations of ministers who seemed unable to make peace with each other. He is trying to understand his negative feelings for his old friend’s son, his namesake, a man who has crossed ethical and religious lines that Ames finds abhorrent. His philosophical meandering through his past is full of his search for God and his quest to find within himself the capacity to forgive.