Exploring The Keep

Click here for another way to explore The Keep. 

Comment on why the publisher might go to such lengths to create and maintain a website like this one devoted to The Keep. How much does it enhance your enjoyment of the book?

The Keep: the first chapter

What’s your reaction to the sudden shift in perspective on page 12, where there’s a first-person interjection (“…how I’m supposed to get him in and out of all these memories in a smooth way so nobody notices all the coming and going I don’t know”) into the third person narrative about Danny and Howie? How about when it becomes clear that this is a story about a story on page 18?

Read with Me in November: The Keep by Jennifer Egan

Join me during the month of November for Jennifer Egan’s The Keep. In her third novel, Egan (the author of The Invisible Circus, Look at Me, and Emerald City) writes of two cousins, reuinted at a medieval European castle, destined to relive a life-changing moment in their lives.

An Amazon.com review of the book calls it “wonderfully weird read–a touch experimental in terms of narrative, with a hefty dose of gothic tension and mystery–balanced by an intimate and mesmerizing look at how the past haunts us in different ways.”

Click here to read chapter one. Click here to reserve your copy of the book.