Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action suit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farman aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. Alternating between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, The House Girl is a searing tale of art, history, love, and secrets that intertwines the stories of two remarkable women.
- | Author: Tara Conklin
- | Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
- | Publication Date: November 05, 2013
- | Number of Pages: 400 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0062207512
- | ISBN-13: 9780062207517