about how things just keep going, keep trying to make it (or stop trying), and why.Īlbert camus wrote that "there is but one serious philosophical problem and that is suicide"-the problem of why we should and shouldn't go on living. it resonates less, in my opinion, as a girl-comes-of-age story or as a tale of sisterly bonds than it does as just the story of a person trying to make it in a family trying to make it in a town trying to make it in this world. it's a revelation of lonliness in particular, and of transience (two subjects often, if stupidly, associated with male psyches and literary tastes). Marilynne robinson's 'housekeeping', like all great literature, is a revelation.
this is not, as has been implied, some kind of lady-book. this novel was given to me by a dude, and further recommended by a (male) writer i know- a guy who counts earnest hemingway among his favorite writers- as one of the best novels of the 20th century. recommended for 'women who like descriptive writing'? gross. Written in exquisite detail, as everyone has noted, but a lot of the rest of what's been written in the more recent reviews i find sort of troubling and, frankly, misleading.
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