Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

The Keepers of the House

3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 · rating details · 1,099 ratings · 114 reviews

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the House is Shirley Ann Grau’s masterwork, a many-layered indictment of racism and rage that is as terrifying as it is wise.

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 Howl...more

Paperback, 320 pages

Published November 11th 2003 by Vintage (first published 1964)

more details... edit details

Get a copy:

More…

Friend Reviews

To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

Lists with This Book

Pulitzer Winners: Fiction & Novels

52nd out of 85 books — 914 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Best Southern Literature

140th out of 598 books — 1,402 voters

More lists with this book...

Community Reviews

(showing 1-30 of 3,000)

filter | sort: default (?) | rating details

Nov 22, 2011 Khris Sellin rated it 4 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The Pulitzer Prize winner for 1965. Read it for last week's book club even though I didn't make it because of the J-O-B (grrr).

This is the story of the Howland family, who have been firmly entrenched in their southern town for generations, and about race relations and racial politics in the south. The focus is mainly on three generations: Will, the patriarch; his daughter Abigail; and his granddaughter, another Abigail.

The Howlands have become a rich and well-respected family, and Will pretty...more The Pulitzer Prize winner for 1965. Read it for last week's book club even though I didn't make it because of the J-O-B (grrr).

This is the story of the Howland family, who have been firmly entrenched in their southern town for generations, and about race relations and racial politics in the south. The focus is mainly on three generations: Will, the patriarch; his daughter Abigail; and his granddaughter, another Abigail.

The Howlands have become a rich and well-respected family, and Will pretty much does what he wants without a care of what anyone else might think. After his wife dies, he is alone for many years, then meets Margaret, a young black girl. He hires her to help out the housekeeper that he has already, but their relationship soon blossoms into something more. They have three children together, who grow up playing side by side with his granddaughter Abigail. This is an open secret in the town - everyone knows the children of Margaret are Will's, but no one speaks about it. The children are all light skinned, and they are sent off in succession to the north, so they can have a better life than their mother, she hopes.

Fast foward to granddaughter Abigail as a grown, married woman with children of her own. Her grandfather and Margaret are long dead. Her husband is running for governor. One of Margaret's children, Robert, suddenly comes out of the woodwork and has produced a marriage certificate between Will and Margaret. This one small act sets off a firestorm of outrage and violence that ruins any chances of the governorship and any hope of a happy, peaceful home life for Abigail and her children. It's fine for a white man to take a black woman into his home and produce "bastard" children with her, but it is an unforgivable sin to fall in love and marry her.

This is where things started to fall apart for me. I didn't understand the built-up hatred and resentment that Margaret's children and, apparently, Abigail had for each other, so I was blindsided by this cold, calculated move by Robert. That being said, Grau does an excellent job of sketching out the characters and letting the hypocrisies and prejudices shine through without being too blatant or preachy about it. (less)

2 likes · like · see review

Aug 08, 2012 Vern rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: grave-yard, library-books

family.
privilege.
death.
revenge.

Everything has its season. The book of Ecclesiastes explains "seasons" well which may explain why Grau opened the story and picked out the title from Ecclesiastes 12:3-5. At its very core The Keepers of the House is a story of forbidden love. William Howland was from a family of privileged white land owners who owned most of the county. While returning from a three day swamp journey to locate a whiskey still, William comes upon Margaret Carmicheal a large richly hu...more family.
privilege.
death.
revenge.

Everything has its season. The book of Ecclesiastes explains "seasons" well which may explain why Grau opened the story and picked out the title from Ecclesiastes 12:3-5. At its very core The Keepers of the House is a story of forbidden love. William Howland was from a family of privileged white land owners who owned most of the county. While returning from a three day swamp journey to locate a whiskey still, William comes upon Margaret Carmicheal a large richly hued Black woman. Margaret is an orphan left with relatives but she spends most of her time alone. Alone and washing clothes is how William Howland found her that day when he walked out of the swamp. They spent the rest of their lives together.

William and Margaret had three children together. William's first marriage had produced a daughter, Abigail, whose mother died. Abigail returned to the Howland home after a troubled marriage with her own young daughter, Abigail, our narrator. William and Margaret had that strong, understanding kind of love that didn't require much talking. Margaret and William's children Robert, Nina, and Christine were all sent away when they got of age to "pass" in northern cities. There was little to no communication from them. Life went on. Abigail married, John Tolliver, and had her own children. They remained on the Howland land. Her husband launched a successful political career built on segregation principles. John Tolliver thought his segregation rhetoric would go no further than the confines of the White Citizen's Councils he spoke to but it seeped out. His rhetoric caused the past to walk right up to their front door.

The women characters within this novel stood out the most. They were strong when it mattered but their weaknesses cripppled them. They loved hard and gave up too easy. They were vengeful.

The Keepers of the House read like the author was trying to put a story together and not a finished product. Grau can craft a landscape and make you feel like you are standing there but her characters never connected. I didn't feel like the story began until the last hundred pages. The author took us through 40years of wilderness to get to a promised land that was around the corner. I wanted the ending to be great since I had sluggishly made my way through such a dull narrative. The ending as well as the entire novel was an extreme disappointment.(less)

2 likes · like · see review

Mar 11, 2009 Teresa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Beautifully written book. There are some slow, though gorgeous, descriptions of one of the characters traveling through a swamp, but don't let that put you off. It's all building up to a great story with important themes. Though it's different than All the King's Men, I was reminded of that book quite a few times as I was reading this one.

Read with a local group for LEH's RELIC program, "Encounter in Louisiana."

1 like · like · see review

Mar 02, 2013 Polly rated it 5 of 5 stars

What an amazing book. Why had i not heard of this before? This is just the type of novel i love to read--an amazing portrait of the land in which the characters live, broad sweep (it covers many generations of the Howland clan), and strong, complex characters who happen to be female. Shirley Ann Grau won a Pulitzer for this in 1965 but it's as topical and compelling today as any novel i've recently read. I plan to hit up the library for all her works.

Summary from the flap: Entrenched on the same...more

like · see review

Feb 28, 2012 Lisa Louie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Grau's Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the early 1960's tells three stories and then knits them together in a puzzling and unsatisfactory ending. The novel begins with the story of Southern white patriarch, William Howland who lives close to the earth in a crumbling ancestral mansion. He seems to give little thought to his vast and understated wealth, and refrains from wielding it in the nearby town. His pleasures are more tied in with his belonging to the land; a large portion of his story is...more Grau's Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the early 1960's tells three stories and then knits them together in a puzzling and unsatisfactory ending. The novel begins with the story of Southern white patriarch, William Howland who lives close to the earth in a crumbling ancestral mansion. He seems to give little thought to his vast and understated wealth, and refrains from wielding it in the nearby town. His pleasures are more tied in with his belonging to the land; a large portion of his story is devoted to his journey into the nearby swamp to find a contraband distillery. When his wife dies after childbirth, he raises his only child, Abigail, and goes about his rather unremarkable life without any peculiar passion. His story gives way to tell of Margaret, a Newtown girl of mixed race heritage whose mother abandoned her and who grows up among several generations of family in a skeleton of a house along the river which floods seasonally. She is haunted by her parentage and worries about the White blood under her Black skin; she feels divided against herself. She is a lonely girl who sees ancestral ghosts; the irony is that for all intents and purposes, she is a ghost herself amongst her family. After her grandmother dies, Margaret senses that destiny is about to take hold. When she meets William Howland, she knows that destiny has arrived. She goes to live with him as his housekeeper, and then we learn that she has bore him three children. The novel's story shifts then to Abigail's story. Abigail is Abigail's granddaughter who comes to live with William and Margaret with her mother after her parents separate. Abigail grows up alongside Margaret's three children but doesn't find much affinity with them. They are kept separate. When their children reach a certain age, William and Margaret send them up north to a boarding school and order them never to return. After her own coming of age, Abigail marries a politically ambitious man who yearns after her social pedigree, and for some years, their marriage works well. But then William dies, and it becomes known that he had married Margaret, and everything unravels in quick succession.

The novel's language is lush and rhythmic, and its depictions of Southern rural life, pre-television, are memorable because they are so antiquated and almost forgotten. And it delivers a very keen sense of the hallowed nature of Southern gentility and the many lonely ghosts--lost dreams of Eden, slaves, slaveholders, Civil War soldiers--that haunt the Southern imagination. I imagine that for its time, Grau's novel was revolutionary for the simple fact that it depicts a White man and a Black woman involved in a romantic, marital relationship. But this merit does not hold for our later generation in which interracial marriages are becoming more and more common. As a modern reader, I found that I wanted much more from Grau's novel. I wanted Abigail to really contend with her love for Margaret's children, her blood relations and childhood playmates, but I wasn't even convinced that she saw them as people. And then I wanted to understand the intimate interplay of this rejection, but Grau does not penetrate beyond Abigail's veil of anger. When the proverbial gun on the wall goes off in the novel, we are supposed to understand its bullet in terms of a deeply embedded history seeping out of the Southern landscape. But love and respect are interior experiences that go much deeper than political wranglings, and that engage the imaginary landscape at its most actual moments. I believed the political outcome of the novel. I believed the emotions. But the heart of the matter was left unwritten. In order for this novel to be able to speak for my generation, for my reality as an American of mixed race heritage, Keeper of the House really needed to have said it.(less)

like · see review

Sep 26, 2011 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, ladywritten

It's late and I'm tired and I won't review this one as much as it deserves. Pulitzer Prize, FYI. A novel in three or four parts, each focusing on a different member of the Howland family of the old South, who over generations become landowners, cotton farmers, timber barons, and ranchers. The Howlands are white, but patriarch William Howland takes up with Margaret, a free black woman. From the 1800s through the 1960s, the family heaves to and fro with the race tides of the country and the region...more

1 like · like · see review

Feb 07, 2011 Kathleen Hagen added it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-audio-books, 2011-general-fiction

The Keepers of the House, by Shirley Ann Grau, narrated by Anna Fields, produced by Blackstone Audio, downloaded from audible.com.

We see three generations of the Howland family: First, William, who said and did whatever he pleased with no thought to prejudice in his small-minded southern town. Then, Margaret, who lived with him for the last 30 years of his life and bore him four children. Margaret was a “mixed blood” part Black, part Indian, and part White. And finally Abigail, the granddaughter...more

like · see review

Mar 01, 2013 Nenia Campbell rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: x-1960s, netgalley, reviewed

You can read more reviews at my blog, The Armchair Librarian!

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

On netgalley, this was compared to The Help. The only things that this book has in common with The Help is that it is a scathing portrayal of racism in the South that was written by a white woman. The Keepers of the House is a lot darker than The Help. Possibly because it was written in the 1960s, when memories of slavery still loomed dark and oppressive, and open racism was still a facet of everyday...more

1 like · like · see review

Jan 31, 2013 Beth rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: alphabonkers, audiobooks, pulitzer

November evenings are quiet and still and dry. The frost-stripped trees and the bleached grasses glisten and shine in the small light. In the winter-emptied fields granite outcroppings gleam white and stark. The bones of the earth, old people call them. In the deepest fold of the land--to the southwest where the sun went down solid and red not long ago--the Providence river reflects a little grey light. The river is small this time of year, drought-shrunken. It turns back the sky, dully, like an...more

2 likes · like · see review

Jan 02, 2013 Lauren rated it 4 of 5 stars

I thoroughly enjoyed this one -- especially as part of my continued reading on slavery and interracial dynamics.

"The Keepers of the House" by Shirley Ann Grau won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964 -- a fact that was interesting to me because the book is about interracial marriage and the dynamics between blacks and whites in the south between the time of slavery and the present (1960's). I was curious what had Grau written and what the Pulitzer committee chose to honor during the era of the Civil Right...more

like · see review

Aug 30, 2012 Ben rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: pulitizer

Pulitzer 1965 - The Keepers of the House is the story of the Howland Family in a part of Alabama. The first part of the book focuses on William Howland (the fifth in a line of many William Howland's) who befriended a young black woman and took her in as a housekeeper yet had 3 children with her - after his original wife died giving him one daughter. The book is written from the viewpoint of Williams Granddaughter, Abigail, who never knew her father and whose mother died when she was young. She...more

like · see review

Aug 19, 2012 Carol rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: literary-fiction

Set just before the start of the Civil Rights movement, this novel concerns the history of the Howland clan, an old, wealthy Mississippi family, as seen through the eyes of Abigail, its latest scion. Daughter of an absent father and an ailing mother, Abigail was raised on the ancestral family farm and estate by her grandfather William and his black housekeeper Margaret, with Margaret's interracial children as her playmates and companions.When the truth of William and Margaret's relationship surf...more

like · see review

Jul 08, 2012 Monique rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-in-2012, favorites

Sometimes you come across a book that reminds you why you love your favorite genre. From me, the genre is literary fiction and for me The Keepers of The House is one of those books that reminds me why I am a literary fiction reader.

Thesynopsisof the book is a little misleading. Yes, it is a story of family and tradition but the racial injustice angle is not a major issue. It's more like a reflection of the time and location. This novel spans two generation of the Howland family and their histor...more Sometimes you come across a book that reminds you why you love your favorite genre. From me, the genre is literary fiction and for me The Keepers of The House is one of those books that reminds me why I am a literary fiction reader.

The synopsis of the book is a little misleading. Yes, it is a story of family and tradition but the racial injustice angle is not a major issue. It's more like a reflection of the time and location. This novel spans two generation of the Howland family and their history after they settled in Alabama. The synopsis makes it seem that Abigail and the Howlands are mixed-race. They are not all of the Howlands (including Abigail) are white, there is small a branch of the family that is mixed race and their role in the story is not prominent until the end.

The Keeper of The House starts off the the narrator, Abigail, reflecting on how her and her children ended up where they are. To fully understand the Howland family and the county the helped found. She takes the readers on a journey through her colorful and rich family history. A large portion of the story focuses on her grandfather, William Howland, and how he came to father three children by his mistress, Margaret who is black. The second part of the story is Abigail telling the reader about how her grandfather's past ends up effecting her present and the future of herself, her marriage and her children.

Grau picked the prefect narrator in Abigail. Her voice was authentic. It was interesting to see how she developed as a person as the time pasted. I just can't say enough about her. I just really liked her and wanted to see how she got to the place in her life she was in when she was introduced in the first chapter. All the characters (good and bad) were well thought out and presented. Now of them were flat. They all had good qualities and bad.

The Keepers of The House reminded me a lot of John Steinbeck's East of Eden (which I loved). The difference being that The Keeper of The House is a much smaller book, without all the details that Steinbeck's East of Eden had. But they were both tales of family history, how the started, and how they developed.(less)

like · see review

Sep 01, 2012 Jon Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars

I feel like this novel doesn’t receive the recognition it deserves. Before a few months ago I had never even heard of it, and now, having read it, I can only place it in my personal pantheon of Great American Novels. The Keepers of the House is exquisite in everything from its sultry and at times disturbing language to its irrepressibly keen perspective on race relations in the American South.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, this masterpiece of a novel should be read by anyone who is intere...more

like · see review

Nov 22, 2008 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965. It's set in the southern US in the mid 20th century, and at its root is a scathing analysis of racism, prejudice, and revenge. But it takes a long time to build to that climax. The first 3/4 of the book is a lovely, wandering description of three generations of a prosperous and respected southern family, told in detail by a white granddaughter. After her grandmother dies, her grandfather marries his mulatto housekeeper and fathers several children, who a...more

like · see review

Oct 06, 2012 Kellie Uhrig rated it 3 of 5 stars

My lifetime goal is to read every Pulitzer Prize winning work of fiction...which is why I was so irritated that they didn't select one this year (and I was convinced I had already read it: Swamplandia!). The Keepers of the House was the 1965 winner and tells the story of an older man who takes a teenager into his home as his housekeeper...did I mention that he lived alone? I think that the author probably thought she was being very progressive in writing this story, but there are moments of (hop...more

like · see review

Sep 24, 2009 Dawn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Southern womanhood took control ! The history of the Howland family was interesting and sets up the conclusion of Abigail's story. Abigail is the typical Southern woman but her experiences help her to find the iron in her soul. She responds to the bigotry and meanness of her community with a meanness of her own. She helps the community understand what the Howland's have meant to that county. She is also able to dismiss her husband from her life. She retaliates against her cousin, a mulatto in a...more

like · see review

Aug 28, 2012 Gina Marcelin rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-ultimate-number-one-favorite-boo

This book takes its time to get started, setting the mood and the temperament of everyone involved.
The characters are complex and believable, the atmosphere of the book is as muggy as the South.
But mostly it was Abigail herself who made me love the book. Her straightforward way of looking at life, her honesty, awareness and her strength made me LOVE this book.
You know how some books can really blow it at the end? Well this one was just the opposite. The end made me love Abigail even more!
When...more

like · see review

Mar 10, 2013 Andrea Lakly rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow. This book is beautifully written and quintessentially Southern in the literary sense. It examines race is a manner much more troubling and subtle than the book that won the Pulitzer four years before it, To Kill A Mockingbird. (And I love TKAM, so there you go.) Once our exposition is established, it in no way forgets to tell us a scandalous and exciting story that left me rooting for the people I knew I should not be. It probably would deserve a five even without the Epilogue, but the Epil...more

like · see review

Aug 07, 2011 Stephen added it

The Pulitzer winner for 1965 - and probably the result of the struggles of the Civil Rights movement. A great story - really, of racism and rage and unknowingly ignoring the power of family and devotion to a place. The novel follows several generations of the Howland Family in the Gulf Coast, Louisiana and when some deep-dark family history becomes public knowlegde, how the racisism and rage erupt with horrific results. The ending was not at all what I expected as I read until the last few pages...more

like · see review

Sep 25, 2012 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars

1965 pulitzer prize winner. nice story written in the polite manner of racist attitudes in the south at the time. ignor it or deny it. keep it at arms length down in the backwoods of society. this deals with a family of long standing in a community bordered by swamp and lowlands in georgia. the main character is old man howland whose family has lived on this piece of land for a hundred and fifty years. it takes place pre ad post wwII and howland does the unthinkable, he takes in an africanian am...more

like · see review

Jan 01, 2013 Trudy E rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was well written and I felt pulled in from the very beginning.
Every family has a story to tell; some more or less remarkable than others.
The Howlands live their lives as they see fit, unconcerned with the opinions of others.
Older generations pass on, but there is really no such thing as a secret. If it exists it will be found out, and a price may be paid by the other generations. When her family secret comes to light, Abigail finds she can do whatever is necessary to protect what is hers a...more

like · see review

Aug 02, 2012 Christopher MacMillan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: pulitzer-prize-winners-and-nominees

More like 3 1/2 stars.

A novel that would have Oprah Winfrey and her fans doing cartwheels in the streets, this more-or-less forgotten Pulitzer Prize-winner from the height of the Civil Rights-era tells the story of Abigail, who - for all her family's wealth, power, and respect in their Southern community - comes under fire when it is discovered that her dead grandfather (William) had been in love with his black housekeeper (Margaret).

Throughout the novel, we are given a brief history of the How...more

like · see review

Jul 29, 2011 Angie Lisle rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a delicious book - maybe because I read it right after finishing a book that I despised (Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War). Once I started reading, I couldn't put this book down until I finished it.

This story is about the forbidden love between William Howland, a wealthy white landowner, and Margaret Carmichael, his black maid, in a small southern town at a time when segregation attempted to keep races separated.

I'm a Melungeon (tri-racial heritage) from a predominately white area in...more

1 like · like · see review

Mar 25, 2008 Megan rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is initially slow-paced, taking a long time to set up scenery and family histories, but the final vindictive and vindicating crescendo is so pleasurable that any amount of time put into it is well worth your while.

The idea that it is ONLY an indictment of racism IN THE SOUTH is rather naive when you consider what happens when the northern-raised son interferes in Louisiana politics and accidentally helps install a violent supremacist. In fact, I loved Keepers of the House precisely be...more

1 like · like · see review

Feb 22, 2013 Barbara Snow rated it 4 of 5 stars

Well written. Nicely drawn characters -- interesting, complex and believable, although not always understandable. At times I wondered where the story was going, but when the end came, it was an explosive result of the mixture of the people, the events and the history that seemed to meander through the novel. I always appreciate an author who doesn't try to soften everything up in the last few pages or add a comforting afterward. Grau is true to her story and characters right down to the last per...more

like · see review

May 24, 2008 Judy rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965. It's set in the southern US in the mid 20th century, and describes what happens when a wealthy landowner fathers children with his black mistress. The novel is a scathing analysis of racism, prejudice, and revenge. However, it takes a long time to build to that climax. The first 3/4 of the book is a somewhat frustrating, wandering description of three generations of a prosperous and respected southern family, told in detail by a white granddaughter. Afte...more

like · see review

Jul 23, 2008 Allison rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: history buffs, family dramas

This book was really good but not what you would call exciting. It also didn't have a happy ending although the ending was satisfying. Most of the characters seem to know the land they were living on better than they knew themselves. Here is an excerpt that I adore and it reflects the writing in the novel really well.

I wonder now how I lost it, the mysteriousness, the wonder.It faded steadily until one day it was entirely gone, and night became just dark, and the moon was only something that wax...more

like · see review

Jan 22, 2013 Roxanne Russell rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: pulitzer-fiction

There was a lot about the way this story was told that I didn't like, but I enjoyed the story, and I enjoyed the Southern setting. Because it was about racism and the mixing of black and white "blood," it reminded me of people I know from this region with similar histories. I can't really put my finger on what I didn't like about the style, but it just seemed inconsistent and tried unsuccessfully to be lyrical. The voice just never came alive to me.

like · see review

Jun 22, 2012 Sunshine Moore rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: pulitzer

Well, I enjoyed the book, but there were moments when I found the characters to be absolutely detestable. There is no rule that you have to like a character or agree with their opinions. I was uncomfortable with the race themes, particularly the deep-rooted aggression of the towns-people toward the mixed children in the story. The story resolved itself nicely in the end; I love the way the heroine developed a personality - I was worried about her at first when she seemed so unable to think or ac...more

like · see review

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 99 100 next »

new topic
Discuss This Book

There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one »

Recommend it | Stats | Recent status updates

combine
Other Editions (13)

More editions...

Genres

Historical Fiction

25 users

Classics

5 users

Cultural > African American

4 users

Literature > American

4 users

Literature > 20th Century

3 users

Novels

3 users

Race

3 users

Modern

2 users

Literary Fiction

2 users

Female Authors

2 users

See top shelves...

Readers also enjoyed similar books

About Shirley Ann Grau

Shirley Ann Grau (b. 1929) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist of nine novels and short story collections, whose work is set primarily in her native South. Grau was raised in Alabama and Louisiana, and many of her novels document the broad social changes of the Deep South during the twentieth century, particularly as they affected African Americans. Grau’s first novel, The Hard Blue Sky (1958), a...more

More about Shirley Ann Grau...

Books by Shirley Ann Grau

More…

Share This Book

Facebook Twitter Your website

Trivia About The Keepers of th...

No trivia or quizzes yet. Add some now »

title link	preview: The Keepers of the House
avg rating	preview: The Keepers of the House Goodreads rating: 3.82 (1099 ratings)
small image	preview: click here [close]
med image	preview: click here [close]
BBCode	[url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/266978.The_Keepers_of_the_House?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book][img]http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320390393l/266978.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/266978.The_Keepers_of_the_House?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book]The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau[/url]

The Keepers of the House

Friend Reviews

Community Reviews

Share This Book

Share This Book on Your Website