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A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York 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 family history and the secrets that her

Who reads BOOK CLUB KIT. The house girl?

Author

Tara Conklin; New Hampshire Library Association Reference and Adult Services (READS); New Hampshire Library Association READS-TO-GO

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780698140752

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Collections

Rating

3.75 / 5 (42,297 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14