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Book Review of The House Girl

The House Girl
The House Girl
Author: Tara Conklin
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Two parallel stories run through this book and are interconnected in many ways, some obvious and some a little more symbolic - Josephine Bell is a slave living in the home on Bell Creek Farm while Lina Sparrow is living in her childhood home with her artist father and working her way up the ladder as a corporate lawyer. Lina's firm has taken on a case that could set precedent if given a landmark decision to acknowledge the value slaves added to corporations and to compensate them for their lack of income while enslaved to the ancestors of these corporate moguls. Josephine Bell and her possible heirs could be Lina's ticket for winning this controversial case, if she can find all the details of the past.