IF POSSIBLE,WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE ON POSTAGE-SOFT COVER MID SIZE EDITION--Lila is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson that was published in 2014. Her fourth novel, it is the third installment of the Gilead series, after Gilead and Home. The novel focuses on the courtship and marriage of Lila and John Ames, as well as the backstory of Lila's transient past and her complex attachments. It won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award.