The Keepers of the House (Audiobook)

from Kelberts

This is simply a great story and a great read about a wealthy, historic family in the segregated south. The Howlands have money but they don't show it. The tension becomes significant when the widower, William, "finds" Margaret, a poor black girl, and brings her home where she eventually bears hi...

from lauriebrown54

The Howlands have lived on their well-to-do farm for seven generations, since the end of the War of 1812, when the first William Howland decided he didn't want to go home but to settle in some place with easier land to deal with. He didn't live long- killed by an Indian raid- but he did live long...

from froxgirl

This 1964 Pulitzer Prize winning novel reads almost like historical fiction. It has a dreamy quality, but it's a nightmare for Margaret, a "freejack" woman of Native American and Black ancestry, who meets a much older wealthy white widower, Will Howland, in her hidden backwater community. Abandon...

from m2snick

The Keepers of the House tells the story of several generations of the Howland family and their home in Alabama. There is a wonderful affection for the land in this book. "The frost-stripped trees and the bleached grasses glisten and shine in the small light. In the winter-emptied fields granite ...

from Amelia_Smith

Nothing much happens in this book, not for a long time. It's slow and the narrator's voice often has the distance of reminiscence, but you know that tensions are there beneath the surface. I never felt like giving up on it, despite what seemed to be a slow pace for the first 85% or so of the book...