Pub Date: 2013-11-05 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins 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 farm-an 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.
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