Title: Keeper of the house
First published: 1994
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Prostitutes, Women domestics, African American women, Women, Women household employees, Fiction, general, South carolina, fiction, African americans, fiction, Prostitution
Places: South Carolina