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Author	Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)
Title	The downstairs girl / Stacey Lee.
Publication Info.	New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2019]
	©2019

Location	Call No.	Status
Little Whit Young Adult	YA-HS L	IN LIBRARY

Description	374 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	1890, Atlanta. Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night she moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. A mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby, but her efforts put her in the crosshairs of Atlanta's most notorious criminal. Jo must decide whether she is ready to step into the light. -- adapted from jacket
Subject	Advice columns -- Juvenile fiction.
	Authorship -- Juvenile fiction.
	Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
	Atlanta (Ga.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Household employees -- Juvenile fiction.
	Wealth -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre or Form	Young adult fiction.
	Historical fiction.
ISBN	9781524740955 (hardback)
	1524740950 (hardback)

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