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...
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...
I tried approaching The Kitchen House with an open mind and dismiss the overall melodramatic tone of the book, but I am quite puzzled by the extent to which this book has gained popularity among readers and book clubs. The story is premised around a young Irish girl named Lavinia who is sold as an ...
Wonderful. Truly, amazingly wonderful!! I cannot say more about this story because my heart is so saddened by events that I have read and because I know history to be truthful. [b:The Kitchen House|6837103|The Kitchen House|Kathleen Grissom|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1350302443s/6837103.jpg|70483...
In an interesting twist on the pre-Civil War story of slavery, Grissom presents us with an Irish child orphaned on the ocean crossing and delivered into the life of an indentured servant. Because Lavinia is only 6 years old as the tale begins, she is handed over to the “house slaves” to raise by the...
The story of a white orphan girl sold to a southern plantation owner and raised by the slaves he owns. She grows up to love them as a family and as she becomes an adult, opportunities arise for her because of the colour of her skin. She has to make some difficult choices and she does the best she ca...
'The Kitchen House' is the story of Lavinia, a young Irish girl who becomes an indentured servant when her parents die on the way to America. She is placed with the Captain's black slaves before he departs for the high seas again. Promising start, right? It all goes down hill from there.The author u...
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