Fingerbone

The great-aunts are miserable from their first night in Fingerbone, and their dialogues, duets of perfect agreement, provide a comic interlude.

The Minister's Tale 2004

The great-aunts are miserable from their first night in Fingerbone, and their dialogues, duets of perfect agreement, provide a comic interlude.

The Minister's Tale 2004

The great-aunts are miserable from their first night in Fingerbone, and their dialogues, duets of perfect agreement, provide a comic interlude.

The Minister's Tale 2004

Somehow, the metaphors proliferated behind her back so that, when she went back to them, they suggested a novel to her; of three generations of women in a town called Fingerbone, grief-stricken, at constant risk of flooding and the resurgence of things long forgotten.

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Marilynne Robinson's gorgeous novel, which manages to impart an atmosphere both melancholic and strangely joyous, takes place in the imaginary town of Fingerbone, Idaho, where Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, grow up under the care of a succession of female relatives.

Five Best 2010

Marilynne Robinson's gorgeous novel, which manages to impart an atmosphere both melancholic and strangely joyous, takes place in the imaginary town of Fingerbone, Idaho, where Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, grow up under the care of a succession of female relatives.

Five Best 2010

Marilynne Robinson's gorgeous novel, which manages to impart an atmosphere both melancholic and strangely joyous, takes place in the imaginary town of Fingerbone, Idaho, where Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, grow up under the care of a succession of female relatives.

Five Best 2010

The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death.

5/12: New at the library this week 2007

The orphans, Ruth and Lucille, are cared for first by their grandmother, in the house her late husband built, then by their maiden great-aunts from Spokane, who are frightened both of children and of the harsh weather in Fingerbone, and finally by another aunt, Sylvie, an itinerant who had been riding the rails.

The Minister's Tale 2004