John recalls visiting his grandfather’s grave in Kansas when he was 12 years old. Seventy-four of John’s seventy-six years have been spent here in Gilead, Iowa. John was born in 1880 in Kansas both his father and his grandfather were also named John Ames, and both of them were ministers, too. One of his biggest regrets is that because he remarried late in life, he hasn’t done much to provide for the future, and that means he will leave his wife, Lila, and his son in a vulnerable position. But now that he has a wife and son, he does. When he was younger, widowed, and living alone, he didn’t feel at home in the world. John begins by reflecting on the fact that he will miss this earthly life. The letters are a mixture of John’s memories, daily events in his life, and reflections on existence and faith in general. John Ames writes for his young son to read after John dies. Gilead is made up of letters that 76-year-old Rev.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? I think what impressed me most about the story was that he was wise enough from the beginning of his journey to realize he was not in a place that merely spoke a different language. Polly had a background studying Chinese and had enough of a grasp of the language to manuever the terrain. He had to understand the culture to get in and stay in. So, Polly was quite the foreigner, carving a path through rural China trying to get to this temple. It happened in the mid 90s when few Americans went to China, whether for business or please. While this book was written in 2007, the story didn’t happen in the recent past where everyone is going to China. 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