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Julia McKenzie Munemo went to Bard College before earning a master’s in education at Harvard and—many years later—an MFA at Stonecoast. Her first book, The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy (Swallow Press, 2020) was called “a carefully crafted memoir for all readers who care about family connections and legacies and about ...
“Munemo has written an extraordinary book: about love, inheritance, race, loss, and revelation. By unpacking the story of her father’s past, she in turns unpacks the story of herself, her husband, and the future of her children.
When her memoir, The Book Keeper, launched on January 14, 2020, Julia McKenzie Munemo did not know that exactly two months later, when the lockdown began and the world shuttered against the Covid-19 pandemic, her book tour would come to an abrupt halt.
Jan 14, 2020 · When interracial romance novels written by her long-dead father landed on Julia McKenzie Munemo’s kitchen table, she—a white woman—had been married to a black man for six years and their first son was a toddler.
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Jan 14, 2020 · When interracial romance novels written by her long-dead father landed on Julia McKenzie Munemo’s kitchen table, she—a white woman—had been married to a black man for six years and their first son was a toddler.
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Jun 5, 2020 · The Bookkeeper. The racist legacy of a mixed-race family. June 5, 2020 Julia McKenzie Munemo. Decades after Julia McKenzie Munemo’s father committed suicide, she learned that he had made his living writing interracial pornography under a pseudonym.
“Julia McKenzie Munemo has written an extraordinary book: about love, inheritance, race, loss and revelation. By unpacking the story of her father’s past—as a writer of racially charged pulp fiction—she in turns unpacks the story of herself, her husband, and the future of her children.
