The Kitchen House is a wonderful historical fiction about plantation life in Virginia. Lavinia lost her parents on the trip from Ireland to America when she was only 7 years old. The ship captain, sold her brother and gave Lavinia to Bella, the kitchen slave to raise as her child and to help in the kitchen. As Lavinia grew, her love for her adoptive slave family grew as well. The characters are well developed and the page turning story gives us a glimps into live on a plantation for both the slaves and the slave owners in the late 1700s.
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