Marilynne Robinson: 'Home'

Published: Oct. 23, 2008, 4:30 p.m.

Set in the same locale and at the same time as her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Gilead," "Home" tells a moving story about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels "Gilead" and "Housekeeping," which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, and two books of nonfiction, "Mother Country" and "The Death of Adam."