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Housekeeping

by Marilynne Robinson · 1980

★★★★½ 4.5/5 · ALLO'S PICK
Two sisters are raised by a series of female relatives in a small Idaho town after their mother drives into the lake. Robinson's debut — stranger, wilder, and more luminous than Gilead.
Allo's take
The novel that announced Robinson. It describes transience and loss with a lyric ferocity that makes you want to read it twice immediately.
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