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"Assured and arresting...You cannot put it down."" (Chicago Tribune) The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia. Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine . . . 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm—an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. It is through her father, renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers a controversy rocking the art world: art historians now suspect that the revered paintings of Lu Anne Bell, an antebellum artist known for her humanizing portraits of the slaves who worked her Virginia tobacco farm, were actually the work of her house slave, Josephine. A descendant of Josephine's would be the perfect face for the lawsuit—if Lina can find one. But nothing is known about Josephine's fate following Lu Anne Bell's death in 1852. In piecing together Josephine's story

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

9780316248679

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Collections, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.75 / 5 (42,297 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13