Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

"The wait since 1981 and Housekeeping is over. Robinson returns with a second novel that, however quiet in tone and however delicate of step, will do no less than tell the story of America-and break your heart…Robinson has composed, with its cascading perfections of symbols, a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering."

"Quietly powerful [and] moving."

"An inspired work from a writer whose sensibility seems steeped in holy fire."