Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was 3 years old, and she never goes anywhere without a book. Once you've got "The House Girl" in your hands, you'll only want to find time to read. Overall, this is a well-done book with a few bumps, but novel lovers really won't mind much. I particularly loved Josephine, perhaps because her quiet thoughts spoke so loudly.Īlso, one integral part of the plot bears mentioning: Conklin is so vivid in her descriptions of fictional artwork that I actually started looking for color pictures of something that doesn't exist. She wasn't going to make that mistake again.Īlthough it's a little rough, and though there's some unnecessary (and sometimes ill-fitting) detail in the story, there's a lot of good inside "The House Girl."Īuthor Tara Conklin does an excellent job weaving two divergent stories together, connecting threads that strengthen as the story goes along.
Yes, Josephine had gone back to Bell Creek plantation once before. She was told later that the child died, but Missus Lu had recently admitted otherwise. She tried running years ago but her belly was big then, and the baby started coming before she could make it north to Philadelphia. But there was no call for him to slap her, so Josephine started collecting a few things to take as she fled, including some drawings she'd made in Missus' studio. Missus Lu was dying, there weren't enough slaves to bring in the crops, and Mister had to help in the fields himself. Seconds after Mister slapped her, Josephine knew that she would run again. Lina only needed to find a connection from past to present, and damage done. It would also catapult Lina, her colleagues and the firm into law history. The client had gotten the go-ahead from the government to do it and, while the case would be pro bono, if they won, it would be monumental. One of the firm's biggest clients decided to bring suit against several large corporations in search of trillions of dollars in reparations for the descendants of African slaves. Like the case she'd recently been handed. The hours were impossibly long and sleep was a hard-found commodity, but she felt privileged to work on cases she'd never forget. Her father, famed artist Oscar Sparrow, always claimed that she made a good argument and, indeed, Lina thrived on the work she did as a first-level at Clifton & Harp LLP. Lina Sparrow had always wanted to be a lawyer. That's what happens in the new novel "The House Girl" by Tara Conklin, where truth lies covered for over a century. Sometimes things get buried and it takes tenacity to sort them out. Actually, you'd found it several days before: It was right in front of you all along, but you never really saw it. You'd been searching for days for that one thing you needed - a fact, a document, a recipe, a key - and it was nowhere to be found. You didn't think you'd ever stop looking.
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