A study of the fiction of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Marilynne Robinson. It uses a variety of critical approaches to explore the way that the novelist plays her large theme of loss into the meticulously created everyday world of her characters. Tanner shows readers how Robinson's texts offer the context of daily life and elevate that everyday life to the symbolic ... Robinson is one of the fierce voices of the present time, and this book is an important look at her novels.