The Kitchen House
An Irish orphan working in a plantation kitchen alongside enslaved people finds herself caught between two worlds.
Kathleen Grissom’s novel opens in 1790, when Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives at a Southern tobacco plantation. She is put to work as an indentured servant alongside the enslaved people of the kitchen house and grows close to them as family. She is also slowly drawn into the world of the big house, where the master is away and the mistress is addicted to opium. When loyalties are tested, dangerous truths come out.
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Gillian Anderson
A young Irish immigrant begins working in the kitchen of a Southern plantation. As an indentured servant, she straddles two worlds: the world of her white master and mistress, and that of her adoptive slave family. A unique and unforgettable novel.
Article · October 2014
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