Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson - a review

6th June 2007 with 3 Comments

A taster:
I remember Sylvie walking through the house with a scarf tied around her hair, carrying a broom. Yet this was the time that leaves began to gather in the corners. They were leaves that had been through the winter, some of them worn to a net of veins . . .
She had to have [...]

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