Book guide
Jack
In segregated St Louis, a wayward son risks love against the world.
Genre and trope pairingsContemporary FictionTragic love storyContemporary FictionSelf-discoveryContemporary FictionRedemptionLiteraryTragic love storyLiterarySelf-discoveryLiteraryRedemptionHistoricalForbidden romance
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About Jack
John Ames Boughton, the troubled prodigal son of a Gilead minister, drifts through postwar St Louis until he falls in love with Della Miles, a Black schoolteacher and preacher’s daughter. Their tender, precarious relationship tests guilt, grace and the boundaries imposed by race and religion.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Slow
Series
Gilead · Book 4 of 4
Content warnings
- racism
- segregation
- anti-miscegenation laws
- alcoholism
- homelessness
- incarceration
- family estrangement
