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Growing up with her younger sister, Lucille, under the care of their grandmother, two great-aunts, and eccentric aunt, Ruth, a young girl struggling to overcome haunting family memories in a town that will not let her forget, gradually grows close to Sylvie, the sister of her dead mother.
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American fiction, Aunts, Death, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Fiction, Girls, Mothers, Family life, Movie-TV Tie-In - General, Fiction / General, Movie/Tv Tie-Ins, Movie / TV Tie-Ins, Fiction, general, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Sisters, Sisters, fiction, Fiction, family life, generalPlaces
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Edition Notes
"LP299"--Spine.
Originally published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980.
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First Sentence
"My name is Ruth."
Work Description
Marilynne Robinson's first novel.
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