Marilynne Robinson "Lila"

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Robinson’s moving third novel of life in Gilead, Iowa, is a prequel to the first. The trilogy opened with a series of letters addressed by Rev. John Ames to his young son; now that boy’s mother, the eponymous Lila, tells the story of her arduous Dust Bowl years, her work in a St. Louis brothel, and how she came to meet and marry Ames.
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