Martin Scorsese Wants to Adapt Marilynne Robinson’s Novel ‘Home’ as His Next Film
“Home” is part of the Robinson’s Gilead-set series. The novel takes place in a remote fictional rural Iowan town in 1956, with a woman returning to her hometown to care for her ailing father. The novel is rife with philosophical references and Biblical quotations, with the central themes being mortality and theology.