Come and discuss the book “The Kitchen House.” Orphaned while aboard a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. When she violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Copies of this book are available at the Customer Service Desk.
Adults. Auditorium.