TALK Series: Award Winners - Gilead by Marilyn Robinson

The best-known book awards tend to shine a spotlight on well-wrought literary works rather than formulaic best-sellers. A novel or collection of stories that wins a major national book award can often be among the most widely read literary works of its day. By upholding a standard of literary excellence, the awards can help ensure that the most significant books will find an audience, both in the moment and for years to come. This series is sponsored by Humanities Kansas.

Gilead, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize (2005) & Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2004)

Gilead is written as a letter from the aging John Ames to his young son. It chronicles the lives of three generations of Ames men who took different approaches to the same moral questions.