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The Book Keeper

A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy

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The Book Keeper

By: Julia McKenzie Munemo
Narrated by: Julia McKenzie Munemo
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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.

©2020 Swallow Press (P)2020 Julia McKenzie Munemo Cultural & Regional Relationships Memoir

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You truly get the sense of what is inherited in which Julia is trying to find the answers to a deep dark family secret, in order for her to be at ease for her families future.

The story is gripping, I feel a true connection.

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