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      Keeper of the House

      by Rebecca T. Godwin
      Published
      Sep 1994
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      288
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      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 grandmother to the employment of Ariadne Fleming, a white madam in the famously elegant brothel called Hazelhedge. At the age of fourteen, she becomes a pair of eyes and hands, watching and working almost invisibly in a world where men and women leave their inhibition, and their pasts, at the door. As Minyon grows up in the household with other black people who provide behind-the-scenes support of Hazelhedge, she cannot escape her haunting childhood memories. Even while bearing witness to the events unfolding around her, Minyon seeks to find her place in the world, and her pace within herself.

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      Aug 1995 Griffin ISBN13 9780312135294 ISBN10 0312135297
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      First Edition Sep 1994 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312114053 ISBN10 0312114052
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      Aug 2013 St. Martin's ISBN13 9781466850392 ISBN10 1466850396
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      Aug 2013 Griffin ISBN10 B00E2PSLRS
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