At the September 2025 meeting
Housekeeping
- Published 1980
- Fiction
- 224 pages
3.5
average of 2
- Alex3
- Matt4
In brief
Two sisters raised by eccentric relatives in a remote Idaho town face loss, transience, and the pull of freedom.
From the publisher
Marilynne Robinson's first novel.
via Open Library
From Wikipedia
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, and again in 2026, Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, 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.
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Also by Marilynne Robinson, in the ledger
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