Housekeeping
By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack
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4.1 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack, a modern American masterpiece by an author whose work 'defines universal truths about what it means to be human' (Barack Obama)
'A perfect novel.' David Nicholls
'Genius.' Anne Enright
'The rarest talent.' Colm Tóibín
'A marvel.' Barbara Kingsolver
'I just adore this book and have probably reread it a hundred times.' Michelle Zauner
Ruth and Lucille are orphans in the desolate lakeside town of Fingerbone: the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, their enigmatic aunt. Over time, the sisters grow up, and apart - until they must discover what it truly means to escape.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Marilynne Robinson became an overnight literary star when her second novel, Gilead, won the Pulitzer in 2005. But her cult following began a quarter century earlier with this brief, luminous novel about finding your place in the world. After their mother’s suicide, teenage siblings Ruth and Lucille get shuttled from one set of relatives to another in the tiny mountain town of Fingerbone, Idaho—until their mother’s free-spirited sister, Sylvie, comes home and takes charge. The sisters’ very different responses to Sylvie’s eccentricities—from sleeping in her clothes to wandering off to spend days in the nearby forest—threaten to fray their once-unbreakable bond. Robinson’s vivid and expressive language brings you right into her heroines’ peculiar world, a place that director Bill Forsyth (Local Hero) captured beautifully in his 1987 film starring Christine Lahti as Sylvie. Sweet, sad, funny and absolutely magical, Housekeeping is a transcendent joy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A reissue of the contemporary feminist classic.
