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For over a century, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn has kept vigil over New York City; the cemetery remembers what the city wants to forget.
In 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.
What Keeps Us excavates erasure and reinvention in the buried lives of ten New York women.
Author: Jeanine Boulay
Publisher: Echo Road Press
Published: 03/01/2026
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9798218879297
About the Author
Boulay, Jeanine: - 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
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For over a century, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn has kept vigil over New York City; the cemetery remembers what the city wants to forget.
In 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.
What Keeps Us excavates erasure and reinvention in the buried lives of ten New York women.
Author: Jeanine Boulay
Publisher: Echo Road Press
Published: 03/01/2026
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9798218879297
About the Author
Boulay, Jeanine: - 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
