Summary: Marilynne Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. In 2005, her long-anticipated second novel, Gilead, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her newest novel, Home (set in the same town as Gilead), is a moving and healing book about family secrets, love, death, and faith. Home has been named a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award for fiction. In this recording, Robinson treats a Talk of the Stacks audience to a reading from Home and took questions ranging from writing to religion. Recorded live on October 16, 2008 from the Minneapolis Central Library's Pohlad Hall. The Talk of the Stacks is presented by The Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library and US Trust.
