A review by tarrowood
Home by Marilynne Robinson

4.0

Robinson is a writer that I grow to love more with each novel of hers. Home is beautiful in the way that it takes the story from Gilead and contemplates the narrative surrounding Jack from the Boughtons instead of Ames. The detail that stood out most to me was the emphasis Robinson puts into characters apologizing and forgiving one another. Micro-infractions are normal, yet we are so unaware of them and neglect to apologize for our actions at times. What if we simply learned to take a stance of apology, allowing for forgiveness to feel more natural?