Kathleen Grissom Ordine dei libri

À 6 ans, Lavinia, orpheline irlandaise, se retrouve esclave dans une plantation de Virginie : un destin bouleversant à travers une époque semée de violences et de passions... En 1791, Lavinia perd ses parents au cours de la traversée les emmenant en Amérique. Devenue la propriété du capitaine du navire, elle est envoyée sur sa plantation et placée sous la responsabilité d'une jeune métisse, Belle. Mais c'est Marna Mae, une femme généreuse et courageuse, qui prendra la fillette sous son aile. Car Belle a bien d'autres soucis : cachant le secret de ses origines, elle vit sans cesse sous la menace de la maîtresse du domaine. Ecartelée entre deux mondes, témoin des crimes incessants commis envers les esclaves, Lavinia parviendra-t-elle à trouver sa place ? Car si la fillette fait de la communauté noire sa famille, sa couleur de peau lui réserve une autre destinée.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything presents a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary, an indigenous woman navigating two worlds in 19th-century North America. In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries white fur trader Abe Farwell, who renames her Mary. They embark on a journey to his trading post in Saskatchewan, where she befriends a Métis woman named Jeannie and makes an enemy of a wolfer named Stiller. Despite discovering a dark secret about Farwell, Mary falls in love with him. Their peaceful winter trading season is shattered when a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota, and Mary witnesses the murderers, including Stiller, abduct five Nakota women. When Farwell refuses to intervene, Mary takes matters into her own hands, arming herself and rescuing the women from the fort, igniting a clash of cultures that tests her marriage and the love between her and Farwell. This narrative spans decades and explores the beauty of the upper West and Canada while delving into the complexities of marriage and one woman's heart.

When 7-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner, she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house and becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation. But Lavinia's skin will always set her apart, whether she wishes it or not. And as she grows older, she will be torn between the life that awaits her as a white women and the people she knows as kin.