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Kitchen House, The: A Novel
Kitchen House, The: A Novel
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Category :  Historical
 
Publisher :  Blackstone Audio Inc
Author :  Kathleen Grissom
Narrator :  Orlagh Cassidy and Bahni Turpin
 
Length :  12 hours 58 minutes (Unabridged)
 
Download Price :  $22.99
 
Format :  Downloadable MP3
 
Only Available in the US and Canada
 
© 2010 Blackstone Audio Inc
“Forget Gone With the Wind. Belle and Lavinia, the heroines in this novel, will make Scarlett seem like a wimp in comparison….Together they narrate a story that grabs the reader and demands to be devoured. Wow.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune   “[Grissom’s] debut twists the conventions of the antebellum novel....Provides a trove of tension and grit, while the many nefarious doings will keep readers hooked to the twisted, yet hopeful, conclusion.”—Publishers Weekly

“Kathleen Grissom peers into the plantation romance through the eyes of a white indentured servant inhabiting the limbo land between slavery and freedom, providing a tale that provokes new empathy for all working and longing in The Kitchen House.”—Alice Randall, author of The Wind Done Gone and Rebel Yell   Gone with the Wind is turned upside down in this stunning debut novel of the antebellum South, a tragic story of page-turning suspense, exploring the meaning of family, where love and loyalty prevail.   When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family.   Orphaned while onboard a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.   The Kitchen House is a tragic story of page-turning suspense, exploring the meaning of family, where love and loyalty prevail.   Kathleen Grissom,born and raised in Saskatchewan, is now happily rooted in South-side Virginia, where she and her husband live in the plantation tavern they renovated. The Kitchen House is her first novel.
 
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