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Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping (2005)

Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, …

True.

It’s about loneliness, and transience, for sure, but it’s also about the masks and patterns we use to sanitize ourselves for the world, and how they battle with our real human nature and what it means to be alive and to yearn and dream and feel. I fucking loved it.