Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Jack (2021), Lila (2014), Home (2008), Gilead (2004)—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—and Housekeeping (1981), as well as four books of nonfiction: Mother Country (1989), The Death of Adam (1998), Absence of Mind (2010), and When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012), and The Givenness of Things (2015), and What Are We Doing Here? (2018). This essay was excerpted from Reading Genesis, to be published in March 2024 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. © 2024 Marilynne Robinson.
