TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Stacey
TI  - The downstairs girl
SN  - 9781524740955
AV  - PZ7.1.L43 Dow 2019
U1  - FIC LEE 
KW  - Advice columns
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Chinese Americans
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - Atlanta (Ga.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 12 +
N2  - "1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--; 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
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