The Kitchen House (Kennebec Large Print Superior Collection)
A New York Times Bestseller -- Orphaned onboard a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives at a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of the master's illegitimate daughter, she becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family....
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A New York Times Bestseller -- Orphaned onboard a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives at a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of the master's illegitimate daughter, she becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family. Eventually accepted into the world of the big house, with its absent master and mistress battling opium addiction, Lavinia straddles two very different worlds. Then she is forced to make a choice.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594136443 (1594136440)
Publish date: March 26th 2013
Publisher: Large Print Press
Pages no: 626
Edition language: English
This book was engaging from start to finish. I listened to the audiobook. I'm fairly new to the audiobook world but this has been the best narration that I have heard thus far!. The novel is not the typical slave novel; it actually focuses on a little Irish indentured servant and her struggle to fin...
Review coming soon...I have to gather my thoughts.
The day I finished this book, I pulled in at a gas station in Virginia, the state where this book is set, and saw a pick-up truck with a Confederate flag in the back window. Though I’d never liked this symbol, I’d never before reacted to it with such deep aversion, such a clear sense of what it actu...
I loved this book. The only thing that held off that last 1/2 star was the fact that I felt some parts were a bit drawn out. I loved the characters. I loved all the relationships between the characters. I even loved Marshall. My heart ached for him. I couldn't blame him for the man he became. I...
"The Kitchen House" is a different sort of look at Southern life below-stairs: it is told in the voices of Lavinia, an indentured white servant, and Belle, a black slave.Lavinia comes to the Tall Oaks plantation as a small child, and sees the black slaves as her family. She does not begin to truly c...
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