{"product_id":"what-keeps-us-a-novel-in-stories-paperback","title":"What Keeps Us: a novel in stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over a century, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn has kept vigil over New York City; the cemetery remembers what the city wants to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these linked stories spanning from the nineteenth century to today, ten women navigate impossible choices. In post-Civil War Manhattan, a school principal keeps her community together, even as she loses her daughter. During the Great Depression, a young wife keeps a lie but finds her voice. As the pandemic claims the city, four seniors keep safe, trading golden-years vitality for solitude. But it is Green-Wood that keeps them all-along with its archivist, Rebecca. Among the forgotten histories she guards, Rebecca finds the key to her own origin story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Keeps Us excavates erasure and reinvention in the buried lives of ten New York women.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102324035807,"sku":"9798218879297","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/NLlqz7n0Nk9798218879297.webp?v=1781079388","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/what-keeps-us-a-novel-in-stories-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}