A Gate at the Stairs
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist for the Orange Prize for FictionChosen 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.Adopted children -- Fiction
Bildungsromans
College students
College students -- Fiction
Families
Families -- Fiction
Families -- United States
Fiction
Large type books
Literature
Nannies
Nannies -- Fiction
Nannies -- United States -- Fiction
Social conditions
Social life and customs
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Fiction
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
9780307273215
9781410421890
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Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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subject_facet | Adopted children -- Fiction, Bildungsromans, College students -- Fiction, Families -- Fiction, Families -- United States, Large type books, Nannies -- Fiction, Nannies -- United States -- Fiction, United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Fiction, United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction |
title_display | A Gate at the Stairs |
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topic_facet | Adopted children, College students, Families, Fiction, Literature, Nannies, Social conditions, Social life and customs |