Quotes
“Shirley Ann Grau is one of those rare writers who create a world, draw the reader into it, and make him somehow happy there, no matter what goes on…One comes to the novel’s end with a sense of loss and leaves that world with reluctance.” Newsweek
“A beautifully written book.” Atlantic
“Her best novel.” Saturday Review
“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, National Book Award finalist
“What a privilege to discover an older book that turns out to be better than most contemporary fiction. We can thank Blackstone for this pleasure…Anna Fields’ dramatic reading brings each of the Howlands vividly to life.” AudioFile