PROVENANCE. A NOVEL - Tecno-Libro

Selected for the 2017 . Go On Girl Book Club .reading list and, a .finalist for 2016 . Phillis Wheatley Award for First Fiction . Southern civility turns savage when Hank Whitaker s dying words reveal the unimaginable. No one not his socialite wife, Maggie, or young son, Lance ever suspected the successful businessman, husband and father they .knew and loved was a black man passing for white. in 1931, in the segregated South, marriage between whites and blacks is illegal. Maggie faces the real possibility of jail and, when Lance receives death threats to atone for his father s betrayal, the family flees the U.S. for Paris. Still grieving Hank s 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 lives and identities for themselves, they find a surprising community of artists and American expats that are