Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009. Thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by GILEAD, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of GILEAD. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father.