Housekeeping Epigram Books Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2017) lightning-paced thriller that offers surprises

lightning-paced thriller that offers surprises at every turn

An older sister tightly slaps her theatrical younger sister

along with 10 legal principles that underpin modern systems of justice

The Honest Life shares the insights and strategies she gathered along the way

Among the many new books about Berlin that I have read

Housekeeping Epigram Books Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2017) lightning-paced thriller that offers surprisesA 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