Housekeeping

Family Life Fiction

Author: Marilynne Robinson

The story of Ruth, who grows up, with her sister Lucille, under the care of her grandmother, two comically fumbling great-aunts, and the transient sister of her dead mother. Housekeeping is a quiet, humorous book that turns eccentricity into poetry, praises the orphan in us all, and transforms everyday life into a kind of sacred myth…..Read More

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