KEEPING THE HOUSE by Ellen Baker — Wisconsin bookseller Ellen Baker’s KEEPING THE HOUSE set in a small Midwestern town in the 1950s, is a multigenerational saga of the downfall of an American family seen through the eyes of a lonely new bride and youngest member of the town’s sewing circle as she attempts to uncover the family’s story by secretly caring for their abandoned Victorian house to Random’s VP Kate Medina in a preempted significant two-book deal by agent Marly Rusoff (NA)
