Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

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Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America, find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother.

Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience.

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