The Keepers of the House, Shirley Ann Grau
The Keepers of the House, Shirley Ann Grau
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The Keepers of the House

Author: Shirley Ann Grau

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/25/2010


Synopsis

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—the last remaining member of the esteemed family and the last keeper of the house—but not all of it.When shocking facts come to light about the late William Howland’s secret marriage to his black housekeeper, the community quickly gathers to vent its outrage upon Abigail and the Howland house itself.Shaken but defiant, Abigail—compelled to go back through the family history in order to understand herself, her father, and the South—will now, in the name of all her brothers and sisters, take her bitter revenge on the small-minded Southern town that has shamed them and persecuted them but will never destroy them.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. Morally intricate, graceful and suspenseful, it has become a modern classic.

Author Bio

Shirley Ann Grau 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, about the descendants of European pioneers living on an island off the coast of Louisiana, established her as a master of vivid description, both for characters and locale, a style she maintained throughout her career. Her public profile rose during the civil rights movement, when her dynastic novel Keepers of the House, which dealt with race relations in Alabama, earned her a Pulitzer Prize.

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