Housekeeping: 40th Anniversary Weike Wang during the early days of

during the early days of the American slave trade—a time when borders are fluid

What he found was a revelation

with humor and tenderness

where people can at once be obsessively curious about others

Through Babbitt’s journey

Housekeeping: 40th Anniversary Weike Wang during the early days ofA modern classic, Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping follows Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, as they grow up in the small lakeside town of Fingerbone. After their mothers death, they pass from the care of their practical grandmother to two well meaning but hapless great aunts, and finally to Sylvietheir mothers eccentric, distant sister. Fingerbone sits beside a glacial lake marked by family tragedy, where their grandfather died in a train wreck