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The Book Keeper
The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy | Julia McKenzie Munemo
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When a stack of interracial romance novels written by her long-dead father landed on Julia McKenzie Munemos kitchen table, shea white womanhad been married to a black man for six years and their first son was a toddler. Out of shame about her fathers 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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Did you know there‘s such a thing as slavery porn? Me either (although perhaps I shouldn‘t be surprised since it seems as if there‘s anything anyone could ever want to read, no matter how unpleasant). Anyway, the author of this memoir‘s late father wrote slavery porn. She, as a white woman married to a black man and mother to mixed race boys, is coming to grips with what that means here. Just started it last night.

jordanremington How can I chat with you? 5y
BookNAround @jordanremington This isn‘t really a chat type platform but if you want to talk about the book, just keep making comments on the post and I‘ll see it when I log in. 5y
jordanremington Okay, this books are written by you? 5y
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BookNAround @jordanremington No. this is a book I‘m currently reading. 5y
jordanremington Okay, I hope we can chat privately. 5y
Bookishlie @jordanremington no offense but you‘re coming off kinda creepy.......just sayin. Probably don‘t mean to be but there it is...... 5y
BookNAround @bookishlie Thank you for saying this politely. I couldn't think of a nice way after I tried gently to initially redirect the tone of the comments. 5y
Bookishlie 👍We shall see if it does any good.....not holding out hope though:) 5y
LeahBergen Oh!!! My friend‘s mom (in the late 1970s) had her basement shelves FULL of these novels! 5y
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