Robinson would take exception to this no doubt, arguing as she does in an illuminating interview in The Paris Review (No. A further consolation surely is that, given the way the author treats her thematic concerns, the Gilead novels read like religious texts – at least for sympathetic non-believers. The Cold War (with its tense race relations) and the hardscrabble 1930s are settings which to us, with our increasingly dysfunctional world view, seem comparatively innocent. One reason for the success of these novels may be that their settings of- fer the reader the consolation of distance.
The first two novels deal with the anxieties and hopes of John Ames and Robert Boughton, old clergymen in the small, fictional Iowan town of Gilead in the 1950s, the latest with the early life of Lila Dahl, Ames’s wife.
With Gilead (2004), Home (2008) and Lila (2014) Marilynne Robinson has produced a body of work of a quality unparalleled in modern fiction, I believe.
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