The Keepers of the House
By Shirley Ann Grau
By Shirley Ann Grau
Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
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$16.95
Nov 11, 2003 | ISBN 9781400030743
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Praise
"Each year, I reread three authors–Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Shirley Ann Grau. No one else writes about the landscape of Louisiana as she does, but also about the landscape of bitter love and family dreams, of sex not as romance but as commerce and experiment and mystery, of people adrift in their lives and people so tethered to their own pieces of earth. Keepers of the House is a masterpiece of history and race and the fragile yet tenuous ownership of land and love."
–Susan Straight, author of the National Book Award Finalist Highwire Moon
“A beautifully written book.”–Atlantic Monthly
“Her best novel.”–Saturday Review
“Shirley Ann Grau is one of those rare writers who creates a world, draws the reader into it, and makes him somehow happy there no matter what goes on.…Such is her beguilement that one comes to the novel’s end with a sense of loss and leaves that world with reluctance.” —Newsweek
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