A sitting in St. James
An unmissable tour de force from three-time National Book Award finalist and Coretta Scott King Award–winning author Rita Williams-Garcia, who memorably tells the stories of one white family and the enslaved people who work for them. Essential reading for teens and adults who are grappling with our...
| Main Author: | Williams-Garcia, Rita (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Quill Tree Books,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
An unmissable tour de force from three-time National Book Award finalist and Coretta Scott King Award–winning author Rita Williams-Garcia, who memorably tells the stories of one white family and the enslaved people who work for them. Essential reading for teens and adults who are grappling with our country's history of racism. This astonishing novel about the interwoven lives of those bound to a plantation in antebellum America is an epic masterwork-empathetic, brutal, and entirely human. 1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's indifference, to sit for a portrait. But there are other important stories to be told on the Guilbert plantation. Stories that span generations, from the big house to out in the fields, of routine horrors, secrets buried as deep as the family fortune, and the tangled bonds of descendants and enslaved. |
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 460 pages ; 22 cm |
| Audience: |
Ages 16 up. Grades 10-12. |
| ISBN: |
9780062367297 0062367293 |
| Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |