I really enjoy when a novel explores two different narratives that eventually weave together. The House Girl bounces back and forth between the story of Josephine, a Virginia house slave in 1852, and Lina, a lawyer working on a slavery reparations case in 2004. It was a very compelling story, and I love historical fiction. I did find myself turning the pages of the present day narrative faster, so that I could know what happened to Josephine - she is by far the main protagonist of this story.