Community Read 2009: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson April 17, 2009

Presented by the Penn State Center for American Literary Studies, in partnership with the English Department and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Following a number of discussion sessions of the novel throughout the spring semester, author Marilynne Robinson will give a public lecture about her award-winning novel Housekeeping. The story is set in Fingerbone, Idaho, sometime in the last 100 years. To say that it is about two weird sisters in a lake town only begins to suggest the novel's haunting, lyrical pleasures. In Housekeeping we see the movement of three generations of women in and around sod houses, glacial lakes, trains, and automobiles. The story has an unexpected brutalism, one that captures modernity's effects on the obscure corners of North America: individuals can too easily lose themselves, or become transient, in modern society.
The full calendar of events, including all discussion sessions leading up to "An Evening with Marilynne Robinson," can be found at http://www.cals.psu.edu/events/community-read-09.shtml. Please contact Hester Blum at [email protected] or 865-0011 for more information.

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