The Book Keeper

The Book Keeper
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When a stack of 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. 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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Julia McKenzie Munemo. The Book Keeper

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THE BOOK KEEPER

A MEMOIR OF RACE, LOVE, AND LEGACY

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One night he told a story to the ceiling as we lay side by side on the futon I’d dragged from home to replace the narrow dorm-room bed. “My father was mentally ill,” he said. “But in Zimbabwe, we don’t think illness comes from nowhere. We believe there’s been a possession.”

I conjugated the word and realized a beat too late that he meant a spirit had possessed his father. I thought of Poltergeist and snow on a TV screen, had no frame of reference for what he meant. He was describing a culture so unlike my own, a place where even mental illness had a different name, a different definition. A world I was sure I would never understand without my own handles to hold it by. A world without the guideposts I’d grown up requiring.

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