{"id":54978,"date":"2017-09-21T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54978"},"modified":"2017-09-21T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:28:08","slug":"provenance-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54978","title":{"rendered":"Provenance: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Provenance-Novel-Donna-Drew-Sawyer\/dp\/0991614321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Provenance: A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecache.biz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Cache<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-16<br \/>\n334 pages<br \/>\n5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-0991614325<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donna Drew Sawyer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Provenance-Novel-Donna-Drew-Sawyer\/dp\/0991614321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51r0PRJ2%2BYL.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the 2017 Maryland Writers&#8217; Association Annual Book Award for Historical Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Selected for the 2017 &#8220;Go On Girl Book Club&#8221; reading list<\/li>\n<li>Finalist for 2016 &#8220;Phillis Wheatley Award for First Fiction.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Southern civility turns savage when Hank Whitaker\u2019s dying words reveal the unimaginable. No one\u2014not his socialite wife, Maggie, or young son, Lance\u2014ever suspected the successful businessman, husband, and father they knew and loved was a black man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing for white<\/a>. In 1931, in the segregated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South<\/a>, marriage between whites and blacks is illegal. Maggie is now a criminal facing jail. When Lance receives death threats to atone for his father\u2019s betrayal, the family flees the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S.<\/a> for the racial freedom of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still grieving Hank\u2019s death and fearful of their uncertain future as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe<\/a> marches toward war, Lance and Maggie mourn the lives they loved but lost. As they struggle to create new lives and identities for themselves, they find a surprising community of artists and American expats that are on the same journey and show them a different way to live and to love. <em>Provenance<\/em> is a sweeping historical saga about love, betrayal, tragedy, triumph, passion, privilege and the universal desire for acceptance\u2014regardless of who you are or where you\u2019re from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern civility turns savage when Hank Whitaker\u2019s dying words reveal the unimaginable. No one\u2014not his socialite wife, Maggie, or young son, Lance\u2014ever suspected the successful businessman, husband, and father they knew and loved was a black man passing for white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28,459,8,15,6462,20],"tags":[27532,27533,96,27534],"class_list":["post-54978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-creative-cache","tag-donna-drew-sawyer","tag-france","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54979,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54978\/revisions\/54979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}