A sitting in St. James

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  • Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita
    Contributor:

    Williams, Machelle

    Summary:

    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.

    Genre: Historical fiction
    Original Publisher: [New York] , HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781665078436

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    9781665078443

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    1665078448

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Williams, Machelle

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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.

Genre
Historical fiction
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[New York]

HarperCollins

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