Art for the End Times: 'Why leftists should read Marilynne Robinson—despite her sins'
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A, I'm Old and Good Looking, Is Lilac
Gilead is one of those quietly emotionally savage novels. I don't know if i will ever reread it in full, some of my favorite passages of robinson,. It is, it permanently scarred me to watch some of the fights between jack and his father. The way she finds a language in which lila can express thoughts that are as complex as anybody could ever have., using metaphors that make sense and would be available to her. And then Jack, the last book, i was like ok, maryland, love you, but there's no way you're going to be able to do this - we get to see a jack's black wife and her mile and her
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