Lila (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel (Hardcover)

from jnwelch

Marilynne Robinson's latest novel set in Gilead, Iowa is titled, Lila,, and features the young woman who married Reverend Ames in Gilead. The book begins around 1920, with Lila being stolen from a neglectful house by "Doll", an impoverished woman with a scarred face. Doll probably saves Lila's li...

from thewanderingjew

If you have never been embraced by a book, read this one. The beauty of its message will surround and comfort you. The writing style is simple and direct in the same way the main character, Lila, is simple and direct. Lila is largely uneducated, sheltered from, and unexposed to, life around her, ...

from Donna828

Without a doubt, this was a 5-star read for me. My first one of the year that is given without reservations. Oh my, how that Marilynne Robinson can write and touch my heart. She did it with her previous fiction books as well. I think the thing I liked best about the character of Lila was her way ...

from lauralkeet

Lila is a companion book to Gilead, in which the elderly preacher John Ames writes a letter to his young son. Lila is the story of Ames' wife: her upbringing, the journey that brought her to Gilead, and her marriage to John. Lila spent her childhood with migrant workers after a woman named Doll r...

from rainpebble

Lila by Marilynne Robinson; (5+*) Marilynne Robinson, I consider to be in a class all her own. There is no one out there today who writes quite like her. My first Robinson was Gilead followed by Housekeeping and then Home. I have loved each of them. Gilead is a love-letter from an elderly preache...