A Gate at the Stairs

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” ( The New York Times ) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America. 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.  “An indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age i