325 pages

English language

Published Feb. 14, 2008 by Virago.

ISBN:
978-1-84408-549-1
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OCLC Number:
233264947

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Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.

7 editions

Subjects

  • Families
  • Fiction
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Children of clergy
  • Sons
  • Conflict of generations
  • Clergy
  • Family relationships

Places

  • Iowa