Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (972 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476748446 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Before he can reveal his real identity to her, he learns that his beloved servant Pan has been captured and sold into slavery in the South. Soon the three of them are running through the Great Dismal Swamp, the notoriously deadly hiding place for escaped slaves. Fans connected so deeply to the book’s characters that the author, Kathleen Grissom, found herself being asked over and over “what happens next?” The wait is finally over.This new, stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. Meanwhile, Caroline’s father learns and exposes Jamie’s secret, and Jamie loses his home, his business, and finally Caroline.Heartbroken and with nothing to lose, Jamie embarks on a trip to a North Carolina plantation where Pan is being held with a former Tall Oakes slave named Sukey, who is intent on getting Pan to the Underground Railroa
. She is the author of The Kitchen House and most recently Glory Over Everything. Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Kathleen Grissom is now happily rooted in south-side Virginia, where she and her husband live in the plantation tavern they renovated
In fact, most of Grissom’s characters have weaknesses along with strengths, making this saga of slavery as textured as it is tense.” (Columbus Dispatch)“As she proved in The Kitchen House and reaffirms in GLORY OVER EVERYTHING, Grissom is a first-rate storyteller….But storytelling alone does not define her talents. The story jumps of the page, and her characters are unforgettably human. Everyone moving through these pages, especially James Pyke, established in this story as a durable character of American fiction, is tangled in a great web of secrets too important to keep and too dangerous to tell. Grissom has done the near-impossible: she has kept the tension alive, tension that doesn’t let up until the final page.” (Jacqueline Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Two if by Sea)"Glory over everything, Kathleen Grissom has done it again! With her second novel, Kathleen gives us a stirring and uplifting tale of the trium
The Dilemma of Passing C. Wong Because I had read Kitchen House by Kathleen Grisson, I was extremely pleased to be able to read Glory Over Everything. It continues the story of Jamie who was ran away from Tall Oaks. He was the son of Belle, a slave, and the master of the plantation in Virginia. He had been taken from Belle and raised as his grandmother’s child and she instilled in him a hatred and view of slaves that they were inferior. He has the experience of “passing and the feeling of not belonging to the white or black world. He makes it to Philadelphia and has to find a way to eat. The sequel is equal to The Kitchen House It is not necessary to have read The Kitchen House in order to enjoy Glory Over Everything, but it makes for a richer experience. Glory Over Everything is a story of slavery told predominately in 1830, about 30 years before the Civil War. The book tells the escape of Jamie Pyke from his southern Virginia home. Jamie is the product a mulatto mother raped by the white master. After a series of tragedies in The Kitchen House book, 13 year old Jamie escapes and ends up in Philadelphia. Though he is "yellow" and easily passes for white, he lives in fear of being discovered. Oh how I wanted to love it just as much The sequel to the beloved book The Kitchen House Oh how I wanted to love it just as much! And it was so well written and the characters were extremely well developed. However, in my opinion, Jamie Pyke Burton - the main character, (who was a minor character in the Kitchen House) was a weak, unlikeable man who constantly chose to leave others behind because he feared for himself. Oher characters however, such as Pan, the sweet, smart, endearing and inquisitive boy whose life everyone tried to save and Robert, the Butler whose amazing heart, strength of character, belie