Kathleen Grissom, Author . Touchstone $16 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5366-6
Grissom’s unsentimental debut twists the conventions of the antebellum novel just enough to give readers an involving new perspective on what would otherwise be fairly stock material. Lavinia, an orphaned seven-year-old white indentured...
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Kathleen Grissom. Simon & Schuster, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4844-3
Grissom’s follow-up novel to her debut, The Kitchen House, breathes life into the captivating story of Jamie Pyke, son of a white slave owner and biracial mother. In the early 19th century, at the age of 13, Jamie, who had been raised white by his...
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Kathleen Grissom. Atria, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4847-4
Grissom (The Kitchen House) offers an ambitious account of bravery and initiative inspired by the true story of a Crow woman who married a white man in late-1800s Montana. Goes First is happy as a teenager, learning from her mother and grandmother...
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