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The house girl [LP]

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 An...

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Main Author: Conklin, Tara
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2013.
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Fugitive slaves > Virginia > Fiction.
Corporate lawyers > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
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Summary: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-famous portraits? (Bestseller)
Physical Description:601 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9781410458742
1410458741
9781594137211
1594137218
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.

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