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Picador (2009), Edition: First, 336 pages
Description
Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2008)
Women's Prize for Fiction (Longlist — 2009)
Dublin Literary Award (Shortlist — 2010)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — Fiction — 2008)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2008)
The Morning News Tournament of Books (Short List — 2009)
Christianity Today Book Awards (Fiction — 2009)
Spear's Book Award (Spear's — Novel — 2009)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Fiction & Poetry — 2008)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Fiction — 2008)
Christian Science Monitor Best Book (Fiction — 2008)
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Original publication date
2008