
The House Girl
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Bahni Turpin
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By:
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Tara Conklin
Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine....
The year is 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves.
The year is 1852: Josephine is a 17-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm - an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell.
It is through her father, renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers a controversy rocking the art world: Art historians now suspect that the revered paintings of Lu Anne Bell, an antebellum artist known for her humanizing portraits of the slaves who worked her Virginia tobacco farm, were actually the work of her house slave, Josephine.
A descendant of Josephine's would be the perfect face for the lawsuit - if Lina can find one. But nothing is known about Josephine's fate following Lu Anne Bell's death in 1852. In piecing together Josephine's story, Lina embarks on a journey that will lead her to question her own life, including the full story of her mother's mysterious death 20 years before.
Alternating between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, this searing tale of art and history, love, and secrets explores what it means to repair a wrong, and asks whether truth can be more important than justice.
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this book feels like it should be a sweeping story, but it's not. it has the feel of that kind of novel.
my favorite parts of the book were letters that Lina read, from Dorothy to Caleb. the history that she uncovered through those types of documents.
i think the story could have gone deeper into Lina's own history, it brushes upon the story of her mother and father, but doesn't deliver with the details as i would have liked.
but over all this was a good book.
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All that being said...Bahni Turpin did a great job with narration.
Would have liked a little more...but GOOD story
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Interesting story
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Fabulous
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Moving story
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Left me unsatisfied
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Interesting, but just okay
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once again beautiful performance by Bahni Turpin.
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For some peculiar reason the reader used this annoying girlish voice for the main character, a voice projecting weakness and immaturity, and utterly annoying. This is the storyteller, one of the two main character, a woman who went through law school and is a lawyer in a strong law firm in NYC. Really?! Every time that young and voice came on to indicate Lina talking, I cringed.
Be forewarned!
Worth listening to but...
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Good Read, But Too Much "Background"
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Excellent story and narration!
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