Lila Book Study Begins January 31

January 10, 2017

Marilynne Robinson is coming to Trinity as part of the INSIGHTS Series on February 25.

She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for “her grace and intelligence in writing.” In 2013 she was awarded South Korea’s Pak Kyong-ni Prize for her contribution to international literature. She is the author of Lila, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Robinson’s nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country, which was nominated for a National Book Award.  She lives in Iowa City where she taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop for twenty-five years. 

Lila is the third, and some have said the best, volume in Marilynne Robinson's trilogy of novels about people and life in a small town in Iowa during the Eisenhower era.  The book is rich with themes of love and life, faith in its perplexities, and grace that undergirds it.  

The book study begins on January 31 and continues through February 21, meeting on Tuesdays at noon in Baker Parlor.  It is led by The Rev. Dr. Christoph Keller III and Eliza Borné.

To sign up, please fill out the form below or call the church office: