Concluding the saga that began in the Pulitzer Prize winner Gilead, Daedalus favorite Marilynne Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of the town's Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the scion of a preacher. Unexpected and tormented, their star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now.

"Robinson's stellar, revelatory fourth entry in her Gilead cycle … is a beautiful, superbly crafted meditation on the redemption and transcendence that love affords."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)