# A Sitting in St. James - Hardcover

by **Rita Williams-Garcia** (Author)

**Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award!**

**7 starred reviews!** "M**onumental." --_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)**

This 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.

_1860, 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.

While 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.

Rita 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.

**Number of Pages:** 480

**Dimensions:** 1.9 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN

**Publication Date:** May 25, 2021

**Award:** Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (2021)

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- **Price:** 17.99 USD
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