The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau


finished 6/30 ......... 20th cent US - Pulitzer '65 .......... rating 8.5

The frame for the story is a woman who is living in the home of her grandparents and great-grandparents and so on in rural Alabama " present day." She tells the story of seven generations focusing on her grandfather's. Her grandfather had 5 children (3 lived) by the young black woman who came to live with the family years after Grandfather's young wife died. The basic theme is race relations.

The reader is Anne Fields who does and excellent job with her clear soft voice.

Posted: Sun - July 1, 2007 at 02:20 PM        

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