Category - Fiction / Family & Relationships
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 18 days ago
Views - 4
Wishes - 1
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Aug 2010
Seller Description
As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tessie Kelvin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer - his “Kelton potatoes” are justifiably famous - has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed.
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A Gate at the Stairs
ISBN: 9780375708466
Publisher Description
In the Midwest just after the September 11 attacks, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin comes of age amid such challenges as racism, the War on Terror, and cruelty in the name of love, as she leaves her fa...
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