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Robinson finds moral drama in the gap between grace as doctrine and practice.
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Glory Boughton returns to Gilead to care for her father as her troubled brother Jack comes home. Their reunion tests the family’s language of forgiveness.
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You prefer quiet novels about faith and family estrangement.
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