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A sitting in St. James, Rita Williams-Garcia

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A sitting in St. James, Rita Williams-Garcia

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A sitting in St. James

Medium

electronic resource

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Rita Williams-Garcia

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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Sitting in Saint James

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