Mortal, can these bones live?
Anne Enright: Marilynne Robinson’s Perfect Paradox, 22 October 2020
“... racism. Her father is a preacher in Memphis; Jack’s father is a preacher in Iowa: he is the Robert Boughton we’re introduced to in Gilead (2004), the first novel in the series, the broken-hearted apologist for his irredeemably wayward son. The fact that the characters live on either side of a racial divide is less important to their conversation in ... ”