The Kitchen House (2010) (edit title/settings)

Corrine M edited the description of The Kitchen House Saturday, February 23, 2013.

• GoneOrphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the Windslaves 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 turned inside out in this tragic, page-turning novel in whichforced to make a white indentured servant girlchoice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives and works with black slaves.are put at risk.

Shelfari edited the description of The Kitchen House Sunday, November 22, 2009.

• Gone with the Wind is turned inside out in this tragic, page-turning novel in which a white indentured servant girl lives and works with black slaves.