Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda introduced Kansas City’s 2010 Big Read selection—Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping—on April 6, 2010, at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St. A meditation on family, memory, and transience (in all its senses), Dirda describes the novel as a mysterious and beautifully composed coming of age story that is full of the humorous, the hallucinatory, and the often strangely unnerving—before asserting that no attentive reader will forget such an enigmatic and poetic book.
