The Keepers of the House Author:Shirley Ann Grau This is a story of the lives of Blacks and Whites, intermingling violence and tenderness, love and vengeance. The story involves Will Howland, member a middle-class family with a blood-stained history in Gulf Coast territory. He meets a young Black woman who becomes his housekeeper and mistress and bears his children. Years later, Abigail, his... more » only white granddaughter, marries a segregationist politician and the family's past is exposed.« less