The Keepers of the House Author:Shirley Ann Grau "The Keepers of the House is truly a big story--not only stretching back in time but big in the sense of its spiritual quality, its intellectual validity. Big, too, in the prophetic vision of a future that we cannot escape, big because the author has the moral toughness to probe into the dark corners of human experience. — The book is well worth... more » reading. Read it for the all-hell-is-breaking-loose excitement of the authentic story...for the lovely, warm, sensuous words...and for its haunting shadowy surface and in-depth clarity..."