Jack
Marilynne Robinson returns to Gilead to tell the love story of the prodigal Jack Boughton and a Black schoolteacher in segregated St. Louis.
In the fourth of her Gilead novels, Marilynne Robinson centers on Jack Boughton, the wayward, self-destructive son of a Presbyterian minister, and his fraught love affair with Della Miles, a Black schoolteacher, in segregated postwar St. Louis. Tender and searching, the novel follows two people drawn together against the laws and prejudices of their time, in Robinson’s characteristic meditation on grace and forgiveness.
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