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 Livinia'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.
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Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2013.
Collation:
388 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Touchstone, 2010.
ISBN:
9780857521545 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
166259