Jesus loves you and Gilead
To the casual college-aged reader, Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead" offers little appeal. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, recently issued in paperback, is anything but sexy. And yet, in a more perfect world, students would slide the novel into their messenger bags each morning. Wedged among pens, planners and iPods, "Gilead" would still shimmer with rare, essential knowledge: every page argues for a life lived modestly and honestly. Every sentence validates a life dedicated to people instead of possessions.
Knowledge, in the novel, is the gift of experience, delivered from a father...
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