The kitchen house
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"Oprhaned aboard a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and worth 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 the by her white skin. Eventually accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction, Lavinia straddles two very different world. Then she is forced to make a choice"--P. [4] of cover.
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The Swinging Light
Book Details
First Published
2010
Pages
388 pages
Rating
4.0 / 5
Ratings
1
Editions
7
Publisher
Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Language
ENG
Status
Published
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