Sitting in St. James Format:Hardcover before you can fly

before you can fly

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Green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and blind-stamped on front

Green cloth spine pictorially stamped in black with color pictorial boards

Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer

Sitting in St. James Format:Hardcover before you can fly1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her familys indifference, to sit for a portrait. But there are other important stories to be told on the Guilbert plantation. 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.