The House Girl by Tara Conklin is told mainly from two female points of view -- Lina Sparrow and Josephine Bell -- one is a white lawyer in New York City at a corporate law firm and the other is a slave/house girl in the southern Lynnhurst, Virginia. Lina has lived with her artistic father most of her life as her artistic mother's life was cut short. Her story is compelling as she's chosen the analytical and detached life of a lawyer over that of the emotional and less practical life of an artist. Josephine, an equally if not more compelling story, is a slave on a tobacco farm caring for her dying mistress, who tries to sketch and paint in her upstairs studio.
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
The House Girl by Tara Conklin is told mainly from two female points of view -- Lina Sparrow and Josephine Bell -- one is a white lawyer in New York City at a corporate law firm and the other is a slave/house girl in the southern Lynnhurst, Virginia. Lina has lived with her artistic father most of her life as her artistic mother's life was cut short. Her story is compelling as she's chosen the analytical and detached life of a lawyer over that of the emotional and less practical life of an artist. Josephine, an equally if not more compelling story, is a slave on a tobacco farm caring for her dying mistress, who tries to sketch and paint in her upstairs studio.