num_pages: 224
description: A best-selling coming-of-age novel tells the story of a dreamy teenager who begins a new life at the lakeside home of her Aunt Sylvie, a thirty-five-year-old misfit, after losing both her parents. Reprint.
language: English
title: Housekeeping
titlecomplete: Housekeeping
genres: Audiobook, American, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 51775
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: Bantam