{"product_id":"sitting-st-james-9780062367310-new","title":"A Sitting in St. James","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Boston Globe\/Horn Book Award!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 starred reviews! \"Monumental.\" --Booklist (starred review) * \"A marathon masterpiece.\"--Kirkus (starred review) * \"Necessary.\"--SLJ (starred review) * \"Shocking and dramatic.\"--Shelf Awareness (starred review) * \"Mesmerizing, confounding and vividly rendered.\"--Book Page (starred review) * \"Williams-Garcia's storytelling is magnificent; her voice honest and authentic.\"--Horn Book (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis astonishing novel from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia about the interwoven lives of those bound to a plantation in antebellum America is an epic masterwork--empathetic, brutal, and entirely human--and essential reading for both teens and adults grappling with the long history of American racism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1860, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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, come to light to reveal a true portrait of the Guilberts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRita Williams-Garcia is one of the preeminent authors of our time. She has been honored with the Children's Literature Lecture Award from the American Library Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat truths will be unearthed when the matriarch of a Louisiana plantation demands her portrait be painted?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAntebellum Louisiana: \u003c\/b\u003e Step into the brutal, tangled world of Le Petit Cottage in 1860, where the lives of a powerful Creole family and the people they enslave are inextricably bound.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDeeply Buried Secrets: \u003c\/b\u003e As Madame Sylvie Guilbert sits for her portrait, stories spanning decades of routine horrors, family fortunes, and shocking truths built on slavery come to light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAward-Winning Historical Fiction: \u003c\/b\u003e From a three-time National Book Award finalist, this epic and unflinching look at America's past is praised as \"monumental\" and \"necessary\" reading.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePowerful YA Crossover: \u003c\/b\u003e An essential and masterfully told story for both teens and adults confronting the complex history of American racism and its enduring legacy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"HARPERCOLLINS","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67537738826018,"sku":"9780062367310-new","price":13.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780062367310.jpg?v=1792202508","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/sitting-st-james-9780062367310-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}