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 in the Midwest in the year after 9/11…. Moore has written her most powerful book yet.” — *The New York Times*