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A Sitting in St. James

Rita Williams-Garcia

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A Sitting in St. James won the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award. 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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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780062367327
Topics
Slavery and American racismFamily secrets across generationsPlantation life in antebellum South

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