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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the home is Shirley Ann Grau’s masterwork, a several-layered indictment of racism and trend that's as frightening because it is wise.Entrenched on a single property because the early 1800s, the Howlands have, for seven decades, been pillars of the Southern neighborhood. Remarkable family lore hasbeen passed on to Abigail Howland, although not everything. When surprising details emerged about her late grandpa William’s connection with Margaret Carmichael, a black housekeeper, the city collects to vent its fury on Abigail is furious, and rapidly. Alone in the home the Howlands constructed, she's at the same time shaken by those individuals who have betrayed her, and decided to punish the city that's persecuted her and her relative.