Home (US) (Oprah's Book Club)
Author: Robinson, Marilynne
ISBN: 9781250784025
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RM52.90
Publisher,Picador USA
Publication Date,
Format, Paperback
Weight, 294.83 g
No. of Pages, 325
A luminous and healing book about families, family secrets, and faith from one of America's most beloved and acclaimed authors. The Reverend Boughton's hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic carrying two decades worth of secrets, he is perpetually at odds with his traditionalist father, though he remains his most beloved child. As Jack tries to make peace with his father, he begins to forge an intense bond with his sister Glory, herself returning home with a broken heart and turbulent past. Home is a luminous and healing book about families, family secrets, and faith from one of America's most beloved and acclaimed authors.
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Devaki Robinson deals with tough themes - family love and loyalty, hurt and forgiveness, disappointment and hope. This is an engrossing story that makes you stop and think .The characters are well drawn, very real and sympathetic.
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Anis where else can we go if not our home when we are tired. This book literally about sweet and sour about a place called home.