The kitchen house
Grissom, Kathleen2013
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When 7-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner, she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house and becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation. But Lavinia's skin will always set her apart, whether she wishes it or not. And as she grows older, she will be torn between the life that awaits her as a white women and the people she knows as kin.
Main title:
The kitchen house / Kathleen Grissom.
Author:
Grissom, Kathleen, author
Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2013.London : Black Swan, 2013.
Collation:
387 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Touchstone, 2010.Originally published: New York: Touchstone, 2010; London: Doubleday, 2013.
ISBN:
9780552779128 (pbk)0552779121
Dewey class:
813.6H
Local class:
FT PBKFSF
Language:
English
BRN:
687102
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