One of my most-anticipated books of the year arrived in store last week: Home the new novel by Marilynne Robinson. Her earlier novel Gilead, which won the Pulitzer Prize, is a beautiful novel narrated by an elderly American preacher, writing the story of his family in a letter to his young son. It is a quietly philosophical journey, set in the American heartland during the years of the Great Depression. In Home Robinson returns to the same community, and explores the life of another man who's journey has taken a very different path. I can't recommend Gilead highly enough...I hope Home can live up to the expectation.