"Keeping the House is a great big juicy family saga, a romantic page-turner
with genuine characters written with a perfect sense of history, time, and place. Her portrayal of
the American housewife is hilarious and heartbreaking. I couldn't have liked it more!"Fannie Flagg,
author of Can't Wait to Get to Heaven

"Stuffed to bursting with stories of love, loss, revenge, obsession, emotional and physical violence,
and general familial mayhem[with] engaging characters."Publishers WeeklyKeeping the House is a big-hearted, multigenerational novel about women's lives in the 1950s
and early 20th century, with big themes of love, sex, wartime heroism, broken hearts, and second
chances.

When newlywed Dolly Magnuson moves to 1950s Pine Rapids, Wisconsin, she discovers that making
marriage work is harder than it looks in the pages of the Ladies Home Journal. As she adapts
to her new life, her restless imagination is seized by an abandoned Victorian house which, she learns
from quilting-circle gossip, belongs to the once prominent Mickelson family. When she trespasses in
the mansion, she is discovered by the troubled grandson, JJ Mickelson, a Marine verteran who lost his
leg at Iwo Jima. Ultimately, JJ reveals the fascinating story of his family's downfall, and both Dolly and
JJ will likewise discover the truths of their own lives and feelings.