![]() |
|
Product Description
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award
Finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star, Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Real Simple
Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed. Told through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Child of My Heart: A Novel
- Once Upon a River: A Novel
- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (Vintage Contemporaries)
- Anagrams (Vintage Contemporaries)
- Birds of America: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
- Bark: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
- Self-Help (Vintage Contemporaries)
- Like Life (Vintage Contemporaries)
- Canada
- See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary
*If this is not the "A Gate at the Stairs" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link