Housekeeping

This book was wonderful. The language and the story are lovely and I found myself reading more and more slowly, making sure that I didn't miss anything. The book is set in, I think, the cold mountains of Idaho, and imagery involving water and wind are used to describe the permanence and impermanence of loneliness, family, and home.
Two quotes:
"Their lives spun off the tiliting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time."
"And here again is a foreshadowing--the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries."