
The Book Keeper
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When interracial romance novels written by her long-dead father landed on Julia McKenzie Munemo's kitchen table, she-a white woman-had been married to a black man for six years and their first son was a toddler. Out of shame about her father's secret career as a writer of "slavery porn," she hid the books from herself, and from her growing mixed-race family, for more than a decade. But then, with police shootings of African American men more and more in the public eye, she realized that understanding her own legacy was the only way to begin to understand her country.
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"A carefully crafted memoir for all readers who care about family connections and legacies and about multiracial identity in an increasingly complex world." (Library Journal) "The Book Keeper is a fiercely felt memoir about family shame and the transformative power of love even as it's also an ongoing meditation on privilege and race in twenty-first century America. This is a debut striking in its empathetic imagination, observational acuity, and emotional intelligence." "In lucid and unadorned prose, Munemo gives focus to her powerful material, which feels essential to the larger cultural conversation about race in America. In tracing her own journey from reckoning with to ownership of her family's past, she offers a unique and important perspective that I haven't seen before in memoir. The Book Keeper does what the best nonfiction does: through a unique and deeply felt personal story, it brings larger cultural and historic threads to light with nuance and resonance." "Julia McKenzie Munemo has written an extraordinary book: about love, inheritance, race, loss and revelation. By unpacking the story of her father's past-as a writer of racially charged pulp fiction-she in turns unpacks the story of herself, her husband, and the future of her children. Rarely does one come across a story as intricately blended and obviously unified as Munemo's. This story, neatly told, with keen narrative syncopation, stands not only as a multi-generational interrogation into a writer's unfurling past, but also as a fable about the complexity of race in America." "Julia McKenzie Munemo's The Book Keeper is a generous, intimate love story across continents and cultures, as well as an incisive social commentary on America's racial divide. What, The Book Keeper asks, can racial progress possibly look like in a country where white liberals so willingly put on blinders every day? And how, in these tumultuous times, can a mother of two black boys tell her children they are safe? This is an urgent, crucial inquiry into what it means to mourn and to forgive and to hope." "In The Book Keeper, Julia McKenzie Munemo invites you to become her confidante in a thoughtful, open discussion of race, mental illness, and the tenacity of family bonds. Her thoughtful and intimate story elicits reflection, long after turning the last page, on the frailty of life and on the work and enduring strength of love." (The Williams Bookstore)More details
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part I: Winter Skin
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Part II: Blinders
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Part III: The Bone Clock
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 37
- Chapter 38
- Chapter 39
- Chapter 40
- Chapter 41
- Part IV: Il Professore
- Chapter 42
- Chapter 43
- Chapter 44
- Chapter 45
- Chapter 46
- Chapter 47
- Chapter 48
- Chapter 49
- Chapter 50
- Chapter 51
- Chapter 52
- Chapter 53
- Chapter 54
- Chapter 55
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
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