A sitting in St. James
Call Number
- FICTION WILL TEEN (CEN, OSH, POW)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, [2021]
Physical Description
xvii, 460 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 10-12. Quill Tree Books.
Summary
A Sitting in St. James tells the stories of one white family and the enslaved people who work for them. 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.