Book Buzz: “The Kitchen House’’ appeals to local readers - South

“The Kitchen House,’’ by debut novelist Kathleen Grissom, is becoming a book that friends pass it around, offer it up as a book club recommendation, or compare it to other favorite reads, says Nancy Harris. In the last few weeks, she met women from three South Shore communities who said that this 2010 novel about love, survival, friendship and loss in the antebellum South should not be missed.