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| Seller Notes: | “Paperback in Lawful situation” |
| Language: | English | Structure: | Paperback |
| ISBN: |
9781439153666 |
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9781439153666 |
| Synopsis | |
| On this consuming” Fresh York Cases” bestseller, Kathleen Grissom brings to lifestyles a thriving plantation in Virginia within the decades earlier than the Civil Battle, where a wretched secret threatens to expose the real and worst in each person tied to the property. Orphaned right thru her passage from Eire, younger, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen dwelling and is placed, as an indentured servant, beneath the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, graceful, and again meals, while guided by the tranquil strength and love of her fresh family. In time, Lavinia is licensed into the area of the gargantuan dwelling, caring for the master’s opium-addicted spouse and befriending his dreadful but protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and gargantuan dwelling, nonetheless her skin color will without a extinguish in sight place her other than Belle and the alternative slaves. Through the irregular eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom’s debut unusual unfolds in a heartbreaking and within the extinguish hopeful memoir of sophistication, bustle, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds. Kathleen Grissom, Fresh York Cases bestselling creator of the extremely anticipated Glory Over Everything , established herself as a outstanding fresh abilities with The Kitchen Condo , now a as much as the moment classic. On this consuming unusual, a wretched secret threatens to expose the real and worst in each person tied to the property at a thriving plantation in Virginia within the decades earlier than the Civil Battle. Orphaned right thru her passage from Eire, younger, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen dwelling and is placed, as an indentured servant, beneath the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, graceful, and again meals, while guided by the tranquil strength and love of her fresh family. In time, Lavinia is licensed into the area of the gargantuan dwelling, caring for the master’s opium-addicted spouse and befriending his dreadful but protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and gargantuan dwelling, nonetheless her skin color will without a extinguish in sight place her other than Belle and the alternative slaves. Through the irregular eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom’s debut unusual unfolds in a heartbreaking and within the extinguish hopeful memoir of sophistication, bustle, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds. Lavinia, a seven-12 months-susceptible Irish orphan without a memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is place to work as an indentured servant. Positioned with the slaves within the kitchen dwelling beneath the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate daughter, Lavinia turns into deeply bonded to her fresh adopted family, despite the indisputable fact that she is without a extinguish in sight place other than them by her white skin. As Lavinia is slowly licensed into the area of the gargantuan dwelling, where the master is absent and the mistress battles an opium habit, she finds herself perilously straddling two very various worlds. When Lavinia marries the master’s terrified son and takes on the role of mistress, loyalties are introduced into ask, dreadful truths are laid bare and lives are place in ache. The Kitchen Residence is a tragic memoir of page-turning suspense, exploring the which technique of family, where love and loyalty prevail.. When a white servant lady violates the declare of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and greatest within the of us she has attain to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Eire, seven-12 months-susceptible Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen dwelling. Under the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate daughter, Lavinia turns into deeply bonded to her adopted family, even supposing she is decided other than them by her white skin. At final, Lavinia is licensed into the area of the gargantuan dwelling, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium habit. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very various worlds. When she is compelled to form a alternative, loyalties are introduced into ask, dreadful truths are laid bare, and lives are place in ache. The Kitchen Residence is a tragic memoir of page-turning suspense, exploring the which technique of family, where love and loyalty prevail. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 1439153663 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781439153666 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 74152695 |
| Key Facts | |
| Creator | Kathleen Grissom |
| Number Of Pages | 384 pages |
| Structure | Paperback |
| Newsletter Date | 2010-02-02 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Touchstone |
| Newsletter 12 months | 20100000 |
| Extra Facts | |
| Copyright Date | 2010 |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 11.6 Ounces19459034] |
| High | 0.7 In. |
| Width | 5.2 In. |
| Dimension | 8 In. |
| Target Audience | |
| Community | Exchange |
| Classification System | |
| LCCN | 2009-017509 |
| LC Classification Number | PS3607.R57K57 2010 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.6 |
| Dewey Edition | 23 |
| Reports | |
| ” The Kitchen Condo combines a history lesson with a compulsively readable melodrama.’ “A consuming tale of the South right thru the times of slavery. . . . Kathleen Grissom’s first unusual explores the important aspect of the sunless world of slavery to boot to the no longer-so-important world of white slavery, or indentured servitude. The e book is written in a formulation that is instant-paced and motion packed, making it advanced to place down.” “A touching tale of oppressed ladies, shaded and white . . . [This novel] about love, survival, friendship, and loss within the antebellum South ought to no longer be neglected.” “Put out of your mind Long gone with the Wind . . . a account that grabs the reader and demands to be devoured. Wow.” “I recommend The Kitchen Condo . This unusual, bask in The Back , does crucial work.” “Kathleen Grissom peers into the plantation romance thru the eyes of a white indentured servant inhabiting the limbo land between slavery and freedom, offering a tale that provokes fresh empathy for all working and longing in The Kitchen Condo.” –Alice Randall, Creator of The Wind Done Long gone and Arise Declare “When you accumulate absorbing in regards to the memoir of Lavinia and Belle you is no longer going to are attempting to place this e book down. I enjoyed this e book very distinguished and I extremely recommend it. Don’t learn it too instant. You create no longer are attempting to crawl over one morsel of this e book.” “Out of the fresh.” “Tension lurks at some stage within the living, propelling the memoir forward [and] sizable portions of drama . . . Captivates with its message of real and scandalous, family, and hope.” “The endearing characters ingratiate themselves in your heart. . . . I most for certain recommend this e book.” “This e book changed into as soon as not seemingly. It changed into as soon as the wow e book that I even personal been awaiting all 12 months.” “This grew to develop to be out to be precisely the e book I desired to build up me lend a hand into the finding out groove. . . . The writing flowed so seamlessly that I will not center of attention on that here is Grissom’s first unusual.” “To enlighten Kathleen Grissom’s The Kitchen Residence is a page-turner wouldn’t carry out it justice . . . Grissom breaks far from the gate at a instant clip, the reader placing on for the streak.” “Irregular and engaging.” “With its instant tempo and neatly-drawn solid, The Kitchen Condo became one of simplest two books as much as now (the alternative being The Fellowship of the Ring ) to procure such retain of me that I discovered myself sneaking it at work. . . . I discovered The Kitchen Condo to be an spectacular, consuming debut unusual that affords a true human face to the tragedies of the day earlier than this day that continue to hassle us this day.” “You’ll be overjoyed by this intimate and resplendent memoir that connects us with an unexpected nook of our history. Kathleen Grissom affords us a brand fresh and unforgettable level of view on slavery and households and human ties within the Outdated South, exploring the deepest mysteries of the past that abet make clear who we’re to this day.” “[A] pulse-quickening debut.” “[Grissom’s] . . . debut twists the conventions of the antebellum unusual. . . . Presents a trove of tension and grit, while the many sinful doings will again readers bent to the zigzag, but hopeful, conclusion.” �”You’ll be overjoyed by this intimate and resplendent memoir that connects us with an unexpected nook of our history. Kathleen Grissom affords us a brand fresh and unforgettable level of view on slavery and households and human ties within the Outdated South, exploring the deepest mysteries of the past that abet make clear who we’re to this day.”–Robert Morgan, Bestselling creator of the Oprah E book Membership selectionGap Creek | |
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