In Tara Conklin's debut novel, The House Girl: A Novel , two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, live lives that 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.
