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A Sitting in St. James (Paperback)
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A Sitting in St. James (Paperback)
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Loot Price R219
Discovery Miles 2 190
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Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award! 7 starred reviews!
"Monumental." -Booklist (starred review) * "A marathon
masterpiece."-Kirkus (starred review) * "Necessary."-SLJ (starred
review) * "Shocking and dramatic."-Shelf Awareness (starred review)
* "Mesmerizing, confounding and vividly rendered."-Book Page
(starred review) * "Williams-Garcia's storytelling is magnificent;
her voice honest and authentic."-Horn Book (starred review) This
astonishing novel from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita
Williams-Garcia about the interwoven lives of those bound to a
plantation in antebellum America is an epic masterwork-empathetic,
brutal, and entirely human-and essential reading for both teens and
adults grappling with the long history of American racism. 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 objections, to sit for a portrait. While Madame plots
her last hurrah, 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, come to light to reveal a true portrait of the Guilberts.
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