Mattie Turner, a young woman living in Red Hill, South Carolina, narrates her growing dissatisfaction with her life and her loveless marriage, until her passive acceptance of life is transformed into the need to break out of her stifling existence...
Keeper of the House is Rebecca T. Godwin's unforgettable novel narrated by the lively Minyon Manigault, a young black woman from a coastal South Carolina Gullah community. In 1929, due to mysterious family circumstances, Minyon is given up by her gr...