A Gate At The Stairs

Description for A GATE AT THE STAIRS by Lorrie Moore:

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.