Provenance [electronic resource] : A Novel

Donna Sawyer2015

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Summary

Southern civility turns savage when Hank Whitakers dying words reveal the unimaginable. No onenot his socialite wife, Maggie, or young son, Lanceever suspected the successful businessman, husband and father they loved, and thought they knew, was a black man passing for white. In 1931, in the segregated South, marriage between whites and blacks is illegal. Maggie, now a criminal, faces the real possibility of going to jail. When Lance receives death threats to atone for his fathers betrayal, the family decides to flee the U.S. for a new life in a more racially and socially liberal city, Paris. Still grieving Hanks death and fearful of their uncertain future as Europe marches toward war, Lance and Maggie mourn the lives they loved but lost. As they struggle to create a new identities for themselves, they find a surprising community of artists and American expats that are on the same journey. In a new city, with new friends, new loves and exciting possibilities, they st...