Sunday Afternoon Book Group

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

20-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of the gentleman farmer has come to a university town is a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds himself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed.

A New York Times bestseller, which described it as "a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America.