The kitchen house
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New York : Touchstone Books, 2010.
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Book
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First Touchstone trade paperback edition.
ISBN
9781439153666, 1439153663, 9781476790145, 1476790140
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368 pages ; 21 cm.
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Published
New York : Touchstone Books, 2010.
Edition
First Touchstone trade paperback edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781439153666, 1439153663, 9781476790145, 1476790140

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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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Grissom, K. (2010). The kitchen house (First Touchstone trade paperback edition.). Touchstone Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Grissom, Kathleen. 2010. The Kitchen House. Touchstone Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Grissom, Kathleen. The Kitchen House Touchstone Books, 2010.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Grissom, Kathleen. The Kitchen House First Touchstone trade paperback edition., Touchstone Books, 2010.

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