Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Author: Marilynne Robinson

Genre: Classics, Literary Fiction, Contemporary

Synopsis:

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.

Format: Paperback, 219 pages

Setting: United States

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1982), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for None (1982), Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for None (1982), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Paperback) (1983), PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel for (1982)

Goodreads Rating: 3.81

*This book is pre-loved, but has been carefully looked through to ensure it is not missing any pages and is in good condition. All visible flaws have been documented in the product photos.