The Reverent, Subversive Gilead
Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer–winning novel speaks unflinchingly of God, grace, sacred luminosity, and humility.
This reads a lot differently now than it did 20 years ago. It’s been 20 years since Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
When I first read the novel, I recall how quickly I was pulled into the story by the quiet shock and elegance of its form: a dying old minister writing a letter to his young son.
The story’s scaffolding seems risky, with religious epistolatory prose vulnerable to slipping into moralizing cliché and theological grandstanding.
Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer–winning novel speaks unflinchingly of God, grace, sacred luminosity, and humility.
Author summary: A review of Marilynne Robinson's novel Gilead.
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