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"Home" is a reflective novel by Marilynne Robinson that revisits the town of Gilead to explore themes of family, faith, and forgiveness through the story of the Boughton household.

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instanceOf novel
author Marilynne Robinson
awarded Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
National Book Award finalist
Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist
containsCharacter John Ames
countryOfOrigin United States
criticalReception widely acclaimed by literary critics
fictionalTown Gilead
linked to: Gilead series
genre Christian fiction
domestic fiction
literary fiction
hasISBN 9780374299101
hasSequelOrCompanion Jack
Lila
language English
literaryMovement contemporary American literature
mainCharacters Glory Boughton
Jack Boughton
Reverend Robert Boughton
motif intergenerational conflict
racial injustice (offstage, referenced)
religious doubt
returning home
narrativePerspective third-person limited
pageCount 336
primaryNarrativeFocalCharacter Glory Boughton
publicationYear 2008
publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
publisherImprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover edition
relatedWork Gilead
Jack
Lila
series Gilead novels
linked to: Gilead series
setting Gilead, Iowa
sharesUniverseWith Gilead
structure character-driven narrative
subjectMatter American Midwest small-town life
Calvinist theology and predestination
pastoral ministry and clergy family life
theme faith
family
forgiveness
grace
prodigal son motif
redemption
timePeriodOfSetting 1950s
tone meditative
melancholic

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John Ames appearsInWork Home
Marilynne Robinson notableWork Home
subject linked to: Marilynne