Housekeeping: A Novel

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"Twenty-five years before Marilynne Robinson won a Pulitzer Prize for Gilead (and acquired a superfan named Barack Obama), she wrote this short, strange novel about two orphaned sisters being raised by a "drifter" aunt in a forgotten town called Fingerbone. A hypnotic meditation on the transience of life and love, it rings in your ears. We're all drifters."

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""Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery." "