TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grau,Shirley Ann
TI  - The keepers of the house: a novel 
SN  - 1400030749 (pbk.)
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Interracial marriage
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Mississippi
N1  - "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1964"-T.p. verso; Abigail -- William -- Margaret -- Abigail
N2  - Entrenched on the same land since the early 1800s, the Howlands have, for seven generations, been pillars of their southern community. Extraordinary family lore has been passed down to Abigail Howland, but not all of it. When shocking facts come to light about her late grandfather William's relationship with Margaret Carmichael, a black housekeeper, the community is outraged, and quickly gathers to vent its fury on Abigail. Alone in the house the Howlands built, she is at once shaken by those who have betrayed her, and determined to punish the town that has persecuted her and her kin. Morally intricate, graceful, and suspenseful, The Keepers of the House has become a modern classic
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