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Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist for the Orange Prize for FictionChosen like a Best Book of the Year by The Brand New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star, Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Real Easy Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the child of the gentleman farmer, has arrived at a college community like a pupil. She finds herself drawn deeper to their world and permanently transformed, when she requires a job as a component-time nanny for an attractive and strange household. Told through the eyes of the narrator, An Entrance in the Steps is just a novel of race, class, battle, and love in The Usa.