This was a very interesting and unique book that wasn’t what I expected but I did enjoy it. The first half of the book was told from Mr. Sitwell’s perspective, the Barclay’s groundskeeper who has worked for them since he was a young orphan they took in to work the kitchen. The second half is told from Jennie’s perspective a young mother who was a maid isn’t he Barclay’s home. This book was largely about race and the injustices that have occurred in our country as well as the underlying tension between races that has existed for years. It was sad for me to read about a ground of African American people wanting to protest a black man being shot in the middle of the street because how have we not gone anywhere or gone past killing black men on the streets? This was the kind of book that makes you think and it is uncomfortable to read at times but I think we do our best growing when we’re uncomfortable. The character of Sitwell who later became the Rib King wasn’t likeable but the reader was able to see how he became who exactly he is.