The Keepers of the House (38 page)

Authors: Shirley Ann Grau

BOOK: The Keepers of the House

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Grau at work in a fishing camp on the northern coast of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, in 1997. She finds the marshes and swamps on the Gulf Coast “endlessly interesting, with their own terrible beauty.”

Grau’s German Shepherd, Yoshi, the last of a line that have been in Grau’s family since her childhood. He acts as her writing companion, sitting beside her while she works—“a kind of silent supervisor,” notes Grau.

Grau’s view of the beach on Martha’s Vineyard. She describes the experience of sitting on the sand while watching the sunrise as “a comforting feeling of belonging, of cosmic happiness if you will.”

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A condensation of this novel appeared in
Ladies’ Home Journal.

The quotation on page 32 is from “The Land of Heart’s Desire” in
The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats.
Reprinted with permission of The Macmillan Company, Mrs. W.B. Yeats, and MacMillan and Co. Ltd. Copyright 1934, 1952 by The MacMillian Group.

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