Novel — Housekeeping: A

Their grandfather died years earlier when his train plunged into the town’s glacial lake. Their mother, Helen, later commits suicide by driving into that same lake, leaving the girls on their grandmother’s porch.

After their grandmother dies and two elderly great-aunts prove unable to care for them, their eccentric aunt Sylvie —a transient who has lived as a drifter—returns to Fingerbone to raise them. Housekeeping: A Novel

A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, Unabridged Books, Inc. Their grandfather died years earlier when his train

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