Historical Fiction
An orphaned Irish indentured servant grows up on a pre-Civil War Virginia tobacco plantation, navigating the brutal divide between the kitchen house slaves and the master's family.
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An orphaned Irish indentured servant grows up on a pre-Civil War Virginia tobacco plantation, navigating the brutal divide between the kitchen house slaves and the master's family.
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Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of the highly anticipated Glory Over Everything, established herself as a remarkable new talent with The Kitchen House, now a contemporary classic. In this gripping novel, a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War. Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Rape, child sexual abuse, and sexual assault depicted; some sexual content
Violence & gore
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Murder, beatings, and violent injury amid plantation brutality
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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Opium addiction is central; alcoholism also depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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No evidence found in available sources
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content
Political content
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Central focus on slavery, race, class, and systemic injustice
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Pervasive slavery, rape, child sexual abuse, trafficking, and cruelty
Other
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