The House Girl (46 page)

TARA CONKLIN has worked as a litigator in the New York and London offices of a major corporate law firm but now devotes her time to writing fiction. she received a BA in history from Yale University, a JD from New York University School of Law, and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her short fiction has appeared in the
Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology and Pangea: An Anthology of Stories from Around the Globe
. Born in St. Croix, she grew up in Massachusetts and now lives with her family in Seattle, Washington.

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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE HOUSE GIRL
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Conklin, Tara.

The house girl : a novel / Tara Conklin. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-220739-5 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-06-220751-7 (pbk.) — ISBN 978-0-06-220752-4 (ebook) — ISBN 978-0-06-223987-7 (audio) 1. Fugitive slaves—Virginia—Fiction. 2. Corporate lawyers—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3603.O5346H68 2013

813’.6—dc23

2012027370

EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2013 ISBN: 9780062207524

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