Housekeeping: A Novel -

After their grandmother dies and two elderly great-aunts prove unable to care for them, their eccentric aunt Sylvie —a transient who has lived as a drifter—returns to Fingerbone to raise them.

The story is narrated by , who recalls her upbringing alongside her younger sister, Lucille . Housekeeping: A Novel

Their grandfather died years earlier when his train plunged into the town’s glacial lake. Their mother, Helen, later commits suicide by driving into that same lake, leaving the girls on their grandmother’s porch. After their grandmother dies and two elderly great-aunts