Keeper of the house
By: Rebecca T. Godwin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Prostitutes -- Fiction; Women domestics -- Fiction; African American women -- Fiction; Women -- South Carolina -- Fiction; South Carolina -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1929, at the age of 14, Minyon Manigault, a black girl, lands a job as housekeeper of a South Carolina brothel. For the next 40 years--her virginity intact--she watches white girls lose theirs and rises to a position of power. By the author of Private Parts.