A review by jillpadams
Lila by Marilynne Robinson

4.0

Takes the perspective of John Ames' wife Lila. It's a little bit Toni Morrison's Sula at first, and a little bit Grapes of Wrath, in her backstory, in nice ways. I read Gilead and wound up feeling: maybe I can't read Marilynne Robinson, bc the stoic voice of aging midwestern Protestant men in small towns is so sharply my dad that I can't stay calm about things.

But Lila turned me around. Through her voice I was able to hear the critique, and the humanity, of this story.