This novel was released on February 2, 2010
When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a sadness in the family. seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation orphaned when she traveled from Ireland where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. , Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family even though she is set a part by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the plantation that she calls it the big house where the master is often absent and the mistress battles a drug addiction. Lavinia finds herself straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties between her adopted family may be broken. The Kitchen House is a tragic story that explores the meaning of love and family, where love and loyalty prevail.
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