The Kitchen House-厨房的房子

作者：Grissom Kathleen

中文简介：The Kitchen House《厨房的房子》故事发生在17世纪。故事从两名女性角色（Lavinia and Belle）的角度展开。Lavinia是一个7岁的爱尔兰女孩，当她的父母在去美国的途中去世时，她成了孤儿。船长把Lavinia带到他的烟草种植园当契约佣人，在那里她由在那里工作的非裔美国奴隶抚养长大。另一方面，Belle是主人的私生子，她照顾Lavinia。

英文简介：When a white servant girl 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. Orphaned while onboard 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. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. 

Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.