![]() ![]() ![]() Lucille, however, begins to ask Sylvie increasingly personal questions about her past that she doesn’t want to answer. Lucille and Sylvie develop a strong friendship over the summer. As a result, Ruth begins to sense that her sister longs for more normal friends. Sylvie helps the girls with their truancy instead of scolding them because she doesn’t want to let go of her friendship with them. The lake is where their grandfather died in an accident and their mother committed suicide. ![]() Two sisters, Ruth and Lucille, skip school almost every day to spend time at a lake. When the girls worry that she will leave them just as everyone else did when they were younger, it bonds them together during a flood that hits Fingerbone where they live. She’s eccentric and odd but also likeable despite being mysterious about her past. After Helen commits suicide and Ruth and Lucille go live with their grandmother Sylvia Foster in Idaho, they’re passed around to various relatives until Sylvie finally takes them in. Ruth, a woman who is now an adult, looks back on her childhood. 1-Page Summary of Housekeeping Overall Summary ![]()
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