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

Reeds, a podcast for the Incurable Reader. We are here to discuss the final pages, the final 25 or so

pages of Marilynne Robinson's novel, Home. We have done, what, six episodes on this book. This is our

seventh. We're going to bring it to a close

here i suppose and then next week we will answer your questions so if you have questions that

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with your question there as well. So here is my question for the two of you as we come to the end of this book.

It's a very sort of general personal question. So you're going to have to insert yourself

into the equation here as we start. We've talked a lot about, we talked about catharsis a lot last week. We've talked

about expectations and how the book has sort of changed for us as we've read it and our experiences

have changed. Heidi, this was your first read. So Jane, this was your second, second read.

That's right. Second. Okay. So what I'd like to know is when you come to the end of the novel,

Heidi, this being your first time, I'll ask you first, are you satisfied with the ending given the discussions that we've been having, the questions we've been posing, the gaps that we've been identifying, have the things that we have discussed and that you've been looking for ultimately led you to an experience that you feel like measure expectations or do you feel like you are left wanting more? And I don't mean that

I'm rambling again to give you a chance to think as usual, but I don't mean that in the sense

that like I'm going to criticize you're not necessarily criticizing Marilyn

Robinson for something but in terms of your experience with it given the conversations

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