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By Marilynne Robinson

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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.

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Fiction Literature Awards Fiction Subjects American Fiction Phases of Life - Fiction Family & Friendship - Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Character Types - Fiction 20th Century American Fiction Infancy & Childhood - Fiction Family Illness & Death - Fiction Women - Wonders & Horrors of Childhood Eccentrics - Fiction Motherhood - Fiction Extended Families - Fiction 20th Century American Fiction - 1945-2000 1982 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists 1982 Pulitzer Prize Finalists 1980-1990->Fiction->Pulitzer Prize Finalists Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction Winners 1981-1990->PEN/Hemingway Award Winners Fiction Awards PEN/Faulkner Award Previous Finalists - PEN/Faulkner Award Pulitzer Prizes All Previous Finalists - Pulitzer Prizes Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Fiction - Pulitzer Prize Finalists American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Awards Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction All Winners - PEN/Hemingway Award