Housekeeping
(Book)

Originally published: [New York] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1980].

Ruthie and her younger sister, Lucille, grow toward adulthood under the untraditional care of Sylvie, the transient sister of their dead mother, in Fingerbone, the small Far West town on the glacial lake where their grandfather died in a train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff.