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A sitting in St. James / Rita Williams-Garcia.

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 objections, to sit for a portrait. While Madame plots her last hurrah, 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063090491
  • ISBN: 006309049X
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (13 hr., 26 min., 03 sec.)): digital
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Quill Tree Books, [2021]

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Machelle Williams.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed June 8, 2021).
Subject: Slavery > Fiction.
Plantation life > Louisiana > Fiction.
Louisiana > History > 1803-1865 > Fiction.
Genre: Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.
Downloadable audio books.


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