Marilynne Robinson
In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames life, he begins a letter to his young son: "I told you last night that I might be gone sometime ... you reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave that look I never in my life say on any other face beside your mother's. It's a kind of furious pride, very passionate and stern. I'm always a little surprised to find my eyebrows unsinged after I've suffered one of those looks. I will miss them." - book cover
This book was chosed by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top six novels of the year.
