Gilead

My mother-in-law gave me this and the two parallel novels for Christmas. It's definitely not something I would have picked up on my own, but I'm really glad to have read it. The book is really about death and memory, about what we want to pass on, why we want to pass it on. It's about how we prepare to leave those we love. I feel like a lot of stories talk about death, but mostly from the perspective of the living, not the dying. This is a beautiful novel, sad and surprising. Highly recommended.