Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson · 1980 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Ruth and Lucille are handed between relatives in the lakeside town of Fingerbone until their aunt Sylvie, who has been living on trains, comes to take them on. Sylvie keeps house her own way - newspapers stacked, leaves in the corners, doors open at night - and the sisters begin to want different lives. Housekeeping against transience, and its surrender.

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• alludes to ↑ The Book of Ruth
  Hebrew scripture · c. 500 BCE · Scripture
• influenced by ↑ Moby-Dick
  Herman Melville · 1851 CE · Novel

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