Tara Conklin tisse des récits qui explorent les liens complexes entre les femmes et l'histoire. Sa prose se caractérise par une profonde perspicacité psychologique et une qualité lyrique qui captivent profondément le lecteur. L'œuvre de Conklin aborde les thèmes de l'identité, de la famille et de la recherche d'appartenance. Les lecteurs sont attirés par la résonance émotionnelle et la narration captivante qui définissent sa voix littéraire distinctive.
Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges, both real and imagined.But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed.
Set against the backdrop of a summer marked by a family funeral and a pivotal moment known as the Pause, the story explores the lives of the Skinner siblings—Renee, Caroline, Joe, and Fiona. As they navigate the complexities of their relationships and the impact of their past, two decades later, a new family crisis challenges their loyalty and connection. This forces them to reevaluate their choices and confront the lengths they will go to for love, highlighting themes of family dynamics and personal growth.
Meet the Skinner siblings: fierce Renée, dreamy Caroline, golden boy Joe and watchful Fiona. Their story begins with the sudden death of their father and a period known as The Pause; one free and feral summer spent at the neighbourhood pond, which will bind the Skinners tightly together, and irrevocably shape the course of their lives. Two decades later, the adult siblings have scattered. But tragedy will draw them back together once again. They'll be forced to question the life choices they've made and ask what, exactly, they will do for love. Beautifully told with warmth and heartbreak, The Last Romantics is a compelling story about family, the ways in which four siblings grow together and apart, the thousand little ways in which they can betray one another - but also how they'll always find home.
A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York 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.
The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia. Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina Sparrow as she looks for an appropriate lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking compensation for families of slaves. In her research, she learns about Lu Anne Bell, a renowned prewar artist whose famous works might have actually been painted by her slave, Josephine. Featuring two remarkable, unforgettable heroines, Tara Conklin's The House Girl is riveting and powerful, literary fiction at its very best.