![]() ![]() Ames is a longtime friend and fellow pastor. It is bordered on one side by Ames and his new wife and family. The Boughton farm is located outside of town. Glory wonders if the entire town of Gilead had not done him a disservice. As a preacher's son, Jack had been allowed to get by with many things for which other boys would have suffered the consequences. ![]() Glory thinks of Jack as she wanders through the old home once again. No one has heard from him during all that time. Most of the family members live within a day's drive of their childhood home however, Jack, the black sheep of the family, has been gone far away for twenty years. Glory, a former middle school English teacher, has determined that as the only unmarried child of eight children it is her duty to come home. ![]() When the story opens, a middle aged woman named Glory has returned to her home town to take care of her aging father, the Reverend Robert Boughton. Home is a novel written by a Pulitzer Prize winning author, Marilynne Robinson. ![]()
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