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082	0		_aFIC ROB
100	1		_aRobinson, Marilynne
245	1	0	_aHousekeeping _c/ Marilynne Robinson
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Strauss _c, 1981 _c, c1980.
300			_a219 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aThis is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.
650		4	_aEccentrics and eccentricities _x--Fiction
650			_aMothers _x-Death _v--Fiction
650			_aGirls _v--Fiction
650		4	_aAunts _x--Fiction
942			_cMO
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