The Kitchen House: A Novel is a fast-paced, gripping story about an Irish orphan named Lavinia and the family she makes for herself of the slaves on the plantation where she becomes an indentured servant. Mama Mae, Papa George, Belle, Beattie, Fanny, and Uncle Jacob become her family and when, halfway through the book, she becomes married to the drunken, tortured and torturous heir to the plantation, you can see the bloody, fiery end a mile a way. But I like historical fiction, even if it’s predictable and Kathleen Grissom offered so many lovely details of the time and place. A page-turner.
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