The house girl

Conklin, Tara.

Large Print 2013

2004: Lina Sparrow, an artist's daughter, is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine, a seventeen-year-old slave, tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm-- an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. Lina's search to find a plaintiff for her case will introduce her to Josephine's story. Was she the real talent behind her mistress's now-fam...

Item Details & Discovery

Explore Topics & Themes:

Class actions (Civil procedure) Fiction

Corporate lawyers New York (State) New York Fiction

Family secrets Fiction

Fugitive slaves Virginia Fiction

Large type books