{"product_id":"housekeeping-9781250769763","title":"Housekeeping","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the plain-spokenness of its language, the grace and dignity of its characters, the simplicity of its story and its intimations of spiritual transcendence, \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping \u003c\/i\u003eis a book that transformed how I see my place in the world. - David Marchese, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pen\/Hemingway Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA modern classic, Marilynne Robinson''s \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e 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, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407304171863,"sku":"9781250769763","price":13.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250769763.jpg?v=1730498921","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/housekeeping-9781250769763","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}