The house girl a novel
Ratings7
Average rating3.4
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Ratings7
Average rating3.4
A novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
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I loved the intertwine stories of an ambitious young litigator at Big Law and a house slave from Virginia. Having practiced at Big Law myself, I could relate. And, as someone interested in the Confederacy, found that half of the story interesting as well.
I feel like this book was good, I don't have anything rulingly negative to say about this book. The only little tweaks I have is that the way the story is distributed is confusing at times. I really liked the storyline and how it centered on art. The historical fiction flipping to modern day told by two separate women, was cool. I liked how it was about a lawyer trying to piece together the history of the past to push forward a civil rights case. However, in flipping back and forth, the stories did not line up. I found there were a lot of characters not accounted for in certain parts when their character development had reached a peak where that disregard seemed unjust. To be honest, I picked up this book blind and started reading it so to have no prior knowledge of the plot, I didn't have any expectations. I really wish I could have given this 3.5 stars, that's what it deserved, not 3. Also, Bahni Turpin is a fantastic narrator and I continue to enjoy her storytelling skill in this book.
