TY  - BOOK
AU  - Munemo,Julia McKenzie
TI  - The book keeper: a memoir of race, love, and legacy 
SN  - 9780804041065
AV  - CT275.M865 A3 2020eb
U1  - 920.073 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Athens
PB  - Swallow Press--Ohio University Press
KW  - Munemo, Julia McKenzie,
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Écrivains américains
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Biographies
KW  - fast
KW  - Families
KW  - Race relations
KW  - United States
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - e-books
KW  - aat
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Livres numériques
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Winter skin -- Blinders -- The bone clock -- Il professore -- Epilogue
N2  - "When a stack of pulpy paperback 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 from Zimbabwe for six years and their first son was a toddler. Her alarm at the covers, which promised interracial pornography set during slavery-some of it even taking place in Africa-was matched only by her shame about her father's secret career. All she'd previously known about him was that he'd suffered from depression and delusions and had killed himself when she was five. So she did what she always did with details about her dad, and hid the books from herself, and from her growing mixed-race family. But then, a decade later, when police shootings of African American men were more and more in the public eye, she realized that understanding her own legacy seemed like the only way to begin to understand what was happening in her country. The Book Keeper is equal parts love story, family interrogation, and racial reckoning as Munemo comes to terms with her whiteness, and with her history"--
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