Amelia Cortez’s Reviews > The Kitchen House > Status Update

I just now realized that Marshall is exactly like my dad was. SA’d by a trusted male several times as a child, using alcohol as a coping mechanism to deal with that trauma, and a lot of anger towards women as a result. 💀 Poor Lavinia is too naive to realize what she’s getting herself into.

“Now he have the fear. If he put that fear into hisself, nothin’ make him happy. If he put that fear back into the world, everythin’ be a reason to fight.”

“There’s not a day go by that I don’t say, “Thank you, Lawd, for sendin’ me up to the big house and for givin’ me the cap’n for my masta. I know there nothin’ right about being a slave, but who am I gonna tell that story to?”