![]() ![]() I wondered as I was reading if I would have been as captivated with Jack if I hadn’t read the other books in the Gilead series, already at this reading knowing Jack’s past and knowing where this journey will take him. Then he meets Della, a black woman, a teacher, herself the daughter of a minister. It’s a third person narrative, but Robinson takes us deep into Jack’s conscience, his thoughts on his low self worth, his failings, the mistakes of his youth that leave scars, the crimes he did commit, his drinking. Louis, recently out of prison, for a crime he did not commit. Jack Boughton, son of a minister, gone from his home in Gilead, Iowa, now in St. “After years of days that were suffered and forgotten, no more memorable than any particular stone in his shoe, here, in a cemetery, in the middle of the night, he was caught off guard by the actual turn of events, something that mattered, a meeting that would empty his best thoughts of their pleasure. ![]() ![]() This is one of the most beautiful love stories I’ve read in a very long time. ![]()
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