TY - BOOK AU - Robinson,Marilynne TI - Jack T2 - Gilead SN - 9780349011806 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - Virago Press KW - Conflict of generations KW - Fiction KW - Children of clergy KW - Fathers and sons KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Interracial dating KW - Families KW - Iowa KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Religious fiction N2 - Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit, and an independent will ER -