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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.A tour de force from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia, this story of an antebellum plantationand the enduring legacies of slavery upon every person who lives thereis essential reading for both teens and adults grappling with the long history of American racism. With six starred reviews so far, the book is now in paperback!
1860, Louisiana.After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her familys objections, to sit for a portrait.
While Madame plots her last hurrah, stories that span generationsfrom the big house to out in the fieldsof 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.
This astonishing novel from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia about the interwoven lives of those bound to a plantation in antebellum America is an epic masterworkempathetic, brutal, and entirely humanand essential reading for both teens and adults grappling with the long history of American racism.
