Mikol, Carmel2018-01-232018-01-232018-01http://hdl.handle.net/10222/73575A great deal of scholarly and critical analysis of Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize nominated debut, Housekeeping, focuses on themes of the domestic, definitions of home, and female relationships. Often read as a feminist novel and placed within the traditional narrative structure of a quest or Bildungsroman, the book is scaled down to a single political or literary perspective. But with the privilege of hindsight and the advantage of Robinson's subsequent catalogue of non-fiction writing, Housekeeping can be read as a starting point from which the rest of her non-fiction essays and lectures emanate. I argue that previous readings of the novel have been reductive because they fail to give due attention to a key concept: Housekeeping makes an important statement about the nature of reality.enRealityHousekeepingPolitics of realityHumanismRobinson, MarilynneText