Happy Monday Bookworms!
I know last week I was bemoaning the difficulty of choosing a book for book club, but I’ve gone and confronted my fears! The next installment of The Fellowship of the Worms will take place on Monday, March 31st. We will be discussing (drumroll please…) The House Girl
Abstract from Goodreads:
Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell. New York City, 2004. Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in an elite law firm, is given a difficult, highly sensitive assignment that could make her career: she must find the “perfect plaintiff” to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
It is through her father, the renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers Josephine Bell and a controversy roiling the art world: are the iconic paintings long ascribed to Lu Anne Bell really the work of her house slave, Josephine? A descendant of Josephine’s would be the perfect face for the reparations lawsuit—if Lina can find one. While following the runaway girl’s faint trail through old letters and plantation records, Lina finds herself questioning her own family history and the secrets that her father has never revealed: How did Lina’s mother die? And why will he never speak about her?
Moving between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, this searing, suspenseful and heartbreaking tale of art and history, love and secrets, explores what it means to repair a wrong and asks whether truth is sometimes more important than justice.
As always, I will post discussion questions on Monday, March 31st. You’re welcome to answer the discussion questions in the comments section, or on your own blog. If you have written a review of The House Girl
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Jennine G.
I have this one sitting by my bed! I can definitely read his one by then. So the whole book will be discussed on March 31st?
Words For Worms
Yes ma’am, we’ll be talking about the whole book on the 31st (which inevitably includes spoilers, so if you’re not ready by then, skip the post. Don’t worry, I give ample warning.)
Andi (@estellasrevenge)
I’m totally in. This will be my post-wedding read.
Emily
I have this book on my nook and will finally get to participate in fellowship of the worms in a timely manner. Looking forward to it!