Housekeeping Mauritania A Time Best YA Book

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)From the “author to watch” ( Kirkus Reviews ) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes an “equal parts sarcastic and profound” ( Kirkus Reviews

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Housekeeping Mauritania A Time Best YA BookA 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