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1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson

Housekeeping is a 1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson. The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.

In 2003, Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time,^[1] describing the book as "Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women." Time magazine also included the novel in its Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.^[2]

Plot

Ruthie narrates the story of how she and her younger sister Lucille are raised by a succession of relatives in the fictional town of Fingerbone, Idaho (some details are similar to Robinson's hometown, Sandpoint, Idaho, particularly the presence of a major rail bridge and direct rail links to Spokane and Montana).

Eventually their aunt Sylvie (who has been living as a transient) comes to take care of them. At firs Housekeeping (novel) - Wikipedia BIQ