Where is the house in the 1981 novel Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson? July 27, 2020September 10, 2011 by Pamela Landy The 1981 novel Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson is set in Fingerbone, Montana. Related Answers How did Jackie Robinson do in his first major league baseball game? Did Andy Robinson make any other movies after playing the psychotic Scorpio killer in Dirty Harry (1971)? Was there a real Robinson Crusoe? What was the Toll House behind the chocolate-chip cookies known as Toll House cookies? What novel is subtitled “A Novel Without a Hero”? What is the time setting of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
It is not. It is in Fingerbone, Idaho.