When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A New York Times Bestseller Pulitzer Prize—Winning Author of Gilead

Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as not only a major American novelist but also a rigorous thinker and an incisive essayist. In this lucid but impassioned collection, Robinson expands with renewed vigor the themes that have preoccupied her work. Here she tackles the charged political and social climate in this countr…