{"product_id":"what-keeps-us-a-novel-in-stories-9798218879297","title":"What Keeps Us: a novel in stories","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeanine Boulay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Echo Road Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218879297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoulay, Jeanine:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - JEANINE BOULAY writes fiction exploring connections across time and place. For twenty years she lived and taught in Brooklyn, where Green-Wood Cemetery served as an inspiration for What Keeps Us. She has been awarded numerous writing fellowships by New York Public Library's Cullman Center Institute for Teachers and the Academy for Teachers.Boulay now works in educational leadership in her native Massachusetts, where she lives beside Mount Wachusett. She is currently at work on a novel set at a historic building at the base of the mountain, that for a century served as a vacation home for women working in Boston's factories and now operates as a rehabilitation center for the ultra-wealthy.www.jeanineboulay.com","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jeanine Boulay \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47733910208669,"sku":"9798218879297","price":29.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_5a95da13-c335-4dff-aee4-ed2ecd3dc09a.jpg?v=1773738574","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/what-keeps-us-a-novel-in-stories-9798218879297","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}