The Kitchen House: A Novel
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Kathleen Grissom. (2017). The Kitchen House: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

Kathleen Grissom. 2017. The Kitchen House: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Kathleen Grissom, The Kitchen House: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.

Kathleen Grissom. The Kitchen House: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.

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Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of the highly anticipated Glory Over Everything, established herself as a remarkable new talent with The Kitchen House, now a contemporary classic. In this gripping novel, a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War.
Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family.

In time, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master's opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves.

Through the unique eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom's debut novel unfolds in a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of class, race, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds.

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   • content: Kathleen Grissom's novel dramatizes the complexities of family, relationships, and slavery in late-eighteenth-century America. Orlagh Cassidy narrates the majority of the book from the perspective of Lavinia, a young woman working as an indentured servant on a plantation after her parents die on the crossing to America. Cassidy's ability to sound just as believable as a 7-year-old as she does as a woman in her 20s is impressive and serves the story well. Bahni Turpin also contributes to the narration as Belle, a slave who essentially adopts Lavinia. Cassidy and Turpin, along with Grissom's fascinating historical details, make this a story not to be missed. J.L.K. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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     November 9, 2009
     Grissom’s unsentimental debut twists the conventions of the antebellum novel just enough to give readers an involving new perspective on what would otherwise be fairly stock material. Lavinia, an orphaned seven-year-old white indentured servant, arrives in 1791 to work in the kitchen house at Tall Oaks, a Tidewater, Va., tobacco plantation owned by Capt. James Pyke. Belle, the captain’s illegitimate half-white daughter who runs the kitchen house, shares narration duties, and the two distinctly different voices chronicle a troublesome 20 years: Lavinia becomes close to the slaves working the kitchen house, but she can’t fully fit in because of her race. At 17, she marries Marshall, the captain’s brutish son turned inept plantation master, and as Lavinia ingratiates herself into the family and the big house, racial tensions boil over into lynching, rape, arson, and murder. The plantation’s social order’s emphasis on violence, love, power, and corruption provides a trove of tension and grit, while the many nefarious doings will keep readers hooked to the twisted, yet hopeful, conclusion.

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