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Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell. New York City, 2004. Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in an elite law firm, is given a difficult, highly sensitive assignment that could make her career: she must find the " perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves. It is through her father, the renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers Josephine Bell and a controversy roiling the art world: are the iconic paintings long ascribed to Lu Anne Bell really the work of her house slave, Josephine? A descendant of Josephine's would be the perfect face for the reparations lawsuit— if Lina can find one. While following the runaway girl's faint trail through old letters and plantation records, Lina finds herself questioning her own...

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Author

Tara Conklin

Publisher

HarperCollins Canada

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062207524

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, History

Rating

4.2 / 5 (7,388 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14