Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER. In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition. This is the tale of another remarkable vision—not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation.