A Gate at the Stairs

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/24/2010
ISBN: 9780375708466
Pages: 321
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.28w x 0.74d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 09/19/2010 pg. 24
People Weekly 10/11/2010 pg. 49