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Book Review of The Kitchen House

The Kitchen House


When a young girl and her family journey from Ireland to the United States in the 1790's only to have both parents die aboard ship, she finds herself taken to a Virginia plantation where she becomes an indentured servant. Lavinia's life takes on many trials and heartbreaks. At times the story is hard to read with it's description of slave conditions, etc. but it's a story of love and hope and family.