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The house girl a novel

A novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.

Main Author: Conklin, Tara.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : William Morrow, c2013.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Fugitive slaves > Virginia > Fiction.
Corporate lawyers > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Summary: A novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
Physical Description: 372 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780062207395 (hbk.)
0062207393 (hbk.)
9780062207517
Author Notes: Tara Conklin received a BA in history from Yale University, a JD from New York University School of Law, and a Master of Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a litigator in the New York and London offices of a corporate law firm. Her short fiction has appeared in The Bristol Prize Anthology and Pangea: An Anthology of Stories from Around the Globe. Her debut novel, The House Girl, was published in 2013.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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