num_pages: 219
description: Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience.
language: English
title: Housekeeping
titlecomplete: Housekeeping
genres: Fiction, Family, American, Coming Of Age, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 51799
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Paperback), awardedAt: 378720000000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Faber and Faber