Housekeeping

"Other books, like Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping,” were helpful because they explored themes, like loneliness and alienation, that I was having to learn to cope with myself."

"I'm glued to my reading chair by quieter novels like Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping" or John Williams's "Stoner.""

"I think you _could_ read both "Gilead" and "Housekeeping," by Marilynne Robinson, as a younger person, but you should do yourself a solid and read them again once you've had some tread worn off your tires."

"Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping""

"Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. I once asked some students how fast they could read, so I decided to use Housekeeping to teach the students how to do slow reading."

"Haunting and transcendentally compelling, this is a prose-poem of a novel about grief, loss, suffering and family. But saying what a Marilynne Robinson novel is ‘about’ seems such a brutish vulgarity: it’s the melancholic yet ecstatic beauty of her language that makes her writing just seep into me, and stay with me."