Hello, I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. I'm Sarah Jane Bentley. And you are listening to Close Reads,

a podcast for The Incurable Reader. We are here to discuss Marilynne Robinson's novel Home. We're going to

discuss pages, what, 200 to 250. This is I believe that would make us our fifth episode on this book.

We're drawing close to the end. And that means that in

this passage, a lot of action happened. I mean, actually, very little action happened, but a lot of

things happened in deep theological discussion and off screen, so to speak. And I have a quick

question that I want to just dive right into.

No small talk this week, because Heidi's got to go pick up her kids.

So we're just going to dive right in.

So here's the question.

Last week, I brought up the idea that throughout the first half of this book, say,

we get so much Jack and a lot of their father but very little real glory

despite the fact that the book is from her perspective um and so here's the question that i was

thinking about while we were reading at this time like i was looking for more glory more and more

glory as we went right and then i started thinking thinking, we have a book that we know there's a

one coming out called Jack. That's actually out now. We have Lila, which came out after her home.

And before this, we of course have Gilead, which is from Ames's perspective.

And I thought it was interesting that Marilynne Robinson chose to make this second book from the perspective of glory and that there's no perspective from Boughton.

So why do you think she chose to make this particular book about Jack coming home from his

sister's perspective and not from the perspective of the long-suffering father, the character

who has longed for his son to come home for so long?

So Sarah Jane, was the face that you just made

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