{"product_id":"housekeeping-a-novel-9781593977863","title":"Housekeeping: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn unabridged audio edition of this classic work on the 25th anniversary of its first publication A modern classic  housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister  Lucille  who grow up haphazardly  first under the care of their competent grandmother  then of two comically bumbling great-aunts  and finally of Sylvie  their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake  the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck  and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town \"chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather  and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere.\" Ruth and Lucilles struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival  and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924515815477,"sku":"ByrdShop_1593977867","price":100.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781593977863.jpg?v=1794135073","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/housekeeping-a-novel-9781593977863","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}