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| Original Title: | The Kitchen House |
| ISBN: | 1439153663 (ISBN13: 9781439153666) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ben, Marshall, Captain Pyke, Miss Martha, Lavinia McCarten, Mama Mae, Papa George, Uncle Jacob, Sukey, Campbell, Fanny, Beattie, Dory, Overseer Rankin, Sally Pyke |
| Setting: | Virginia(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and for Debut Author (2010) |
Kathleen Grissom
Paperback | Pages: 369 pages Rating: 4.2 | 222214 Users | 18057 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Kitchen House |
| Author | : | Kathleen Grissom |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 369 pages |
| Published | : | February 2nd 2010 by Atria Books |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Book Club |
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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 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.Rating Of Books The Kitchen House
Ratings: 4.2 From 222214 Users | 18057 ReviewsArticle Of Books The Kitchen House
Not going to waste time on a long review on this one.....My review can be summed up in "one word."Ready for it? Waiting....waiting.... drumroll.....please......My review for this book........ is...."horrible"By the end of this book I sooooooo wanted to put a few drops of laudanum in my drink, to take away the pain of it all!Don't waste your time on this one...so poorly written..... predictable.... I only stuck with it due to being a bookclub selection.......Kathleen Grissom had the raw materials for a rich and powerful historical novel. Her writing is good, if a little drawn out at times. She has an interesting angle with the orphaned Irish immigrant girl put to work among the slaves. So why did it fall short? I think Grissom slipped too easily into stereotypes and melodrama and never got out of that rut. When you have too many tragic or shocking things happen to too many characters, it becomes predictable and numbs the reader. I started losing
It has been a few years since I've read The Kitchen House, however, what I remember most is that I wanted to like it more. I've re-read many of the reviews by fellow readers here on Goodreads, looked back over the book once again, and I still feel just as strongly that it was a terrible let-down. The prose reminded me too much of Gone with the Wind - a whole lot of hyperbole and not a lot of truth in the substance. It is what we "think" the Old South was like but not so much what it was it. The
Stories set in the South during the time of slavery are always a difficult read. The Kitchen House is no exception. However, the story told here is not all tragedy. There is also hope, friendship, and love in this story.The Kitchen House is told from two points of view. Lavinia, a young Irish girl who is now an indentured servant, and Belle, a young black slave, who is half while. Lavinia, is seven years old, when she is orphaned when her parents die during passage by boat. The Captain, takes
An amazing first novel! I rarely hand out 5 stars for a debut novel but this one certainly deserves it. Author Kathleen Grissom's debut novel about slavery in the South in the late 1700's, early 1800's is one of the best out this year. This thought-provoking look at life on a tobacco plantation in that era both shocks us and draws us into the souls of these compelling characters, the white owners, the black slaves, and the little white girl who is brought in as an indentured servant, with whom
I had sorted this book as literature on my shelf well it is definitely not literature but more cheap sensational stuff based on stereotypes.While reading this book this is what I wrote:"I am not liking this book. It feels like the books I read when I was a teen and had nothing good to read. It is too much. Too much sorrow and everything goes wrong. Now she is going to make life changing decisions because of lack of communication. If there is something I dislike it is that in books.I meant by
I received this book on the Goodreads Giveaway. Thank you Goodreads and Touchstone Fireside publishers. What a gift this book was. Not only did I LOVE the story, but I defy anyone to not care about these characters. From the beginning when you first meet seven year old Lavinia, an orphan first arriving in America from Ireland, all you want to do is hug her and find out where this story takes her. It is a story of the true meaning of family, sacrifice and loyalty. You will want to be a part of
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