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Marilynne Robinson's third novel returns to Gilead, Iowa, the town of her novel Gilead, and runs alongside it in time, this time in the household of the Reverend Robert Boughton, closest friend of John Ames. Glory Boughton, 38, has come home to care for her dying father, carrying a broken heart of her own. Then her brother Jack, the family's prodigal son, returns after twenty years. An alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is at odds with his traditionalist father yet remains his most beloved child. A retelling of the parable of the prodigal son, it was a National Book Award finalist.

Corning chief executive Wendell P. Weeks named it in a What CEOs are reading roundup.