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Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson

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Housekeeping

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Marilynne Robinson

Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, grow up first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West is the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. Lucille begins to resist her unconventional upbringing, but Ruth grows closer to Sylvie as she is drawn into a world of transience. -- adapted from jacket

House-keeping