Marilynne Robinson’s second novel, Gilead (2004), begins with the words “I told you last night that I might be gone sometime.” Her third, Home (2008), begins with “Home to stay, Glory! Yes!” These two beginnings seem to speak to each other as signature and countersignature because, while every signature promises to outlive its author as the mark of that which is presently here but will be gone sometime, the countersignature can be evidence of a return home, of survival and not yet death. Indeed, Gilead is presented as a letter addressed from beyond the grave, even as the ability of its narrator, Reverend John Ames, to sign again attests to his living on in the face of inevitable death. What this paper argues, however, is that Home sees Robinson write also of Ames’s survival after death. These two novels of generations and inheritances themselves share an inheritance, with the second repeating the first, and these twinned, parallel texts are in turn peopled by characters twinned in name and deed. At issue are questions of secrets, predestination, and surprises, but Robinson’s conclusion can only be that the future holds no surprises for God, who names all possible futures. As a result, Robinson invites us to rethink the story told by the twin beginnings of these two novels, and understand that Home does not serve as a countersignature marking Ames’s survival, but a countersignature signed by God after his death, and his return “Home to stay, [in the] Glory [of heaven]! Yes!”