{"id":145,"date":"2015-09-15T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativecache.biz\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2016-09-04T19:34:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T23:34:36","slug":"about-provenance-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creativecache.biz\/?page_id=145","title":{"rendered":"About PROVENANCE: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Provenance<\/em> is an intimate family saga about\u00a0hope and love and, the tragedies that test these life-affirming bonds. Beginning in the early twentieth century\u2014a time when to be African-American meant risking everything to dictate your own destiny\u2014three generations of a family make bold choices as they struggle against\u2014racism, sexism and elitism\u2014struggles that still resonate today. Their story moves from the Deep South, to Paris between the World Wars, to New York during the City \u2019s Golden Age\u2014as Provenance\u2019s characters risk everything to take\u00a0more than society would ever offer them.<\/p>\n

Provenance<\/em>\u00a0was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Phillis Wheatley Award for First Fiction<\/a>.\u00a0Provenance<\/em> and author, Donna Drew Sawyer were\u00a0featured at\u00a0the 2016\u00a0Virginia Festival of the Book<\/em> <\/a>and\u00a0the 2016\u00a0Gaithersburg Book Festival<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to purchase your copy of Provenance: A Novel<\/em>\u00a0from\u00a0Amazon<\/a>, Barnes & Noble<\/a> or any\u00a0Independent Bookseller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Synopsis:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Lance Whitaker was 18 years old when he became a white man. Caught after dark in his small sundown town<\/a>, he was\u00a0accused of a crime that was\u00a0certain to get him lynched. Hank ran for his life, forced to leave all he knew and all who knew him. He arrives is a city where no one knows him and because of his racially ambiguous looks, he is mistaken for white. For the first time in his life, he experiences what it is like to have, \u201clife smooth out like silk.\u201d<\/p>\n

For two decades, Hank\u00a0continues to \u201cpass,\u201d building a successful business\u00a0and becoming part of white society. When he marries\u00a0and has a son, he tries to figure out how to tell his family the truth about his heritage without losing everything\u2014again.<\/p>\n

Fate steps in and Hank, on his deathbed, finally shares his secret. It is a revelation and betrayal\u00a0that forces his wife, Maggie, and 18 year-old son, Lance, to flee. Maggie is guilty of the crime of miscegenation and her son faces the sudden harsh reality of being Black in the segregated south.<\/p>\n

The family joins the more than 200,000 African-Americans who left the U.S. during the early 20th<\/sup> century searching for racial freedom in Paris between the World Wars. Provenance<\/em> intertwines the fictional Whitaker family with real African-American expatriates\u2014some famous, like Josephine Baker\u2014others like Belle da Costa Greene<\/a> and Eugene Bullard<\/a>, were not as renowned but just at remarkable. They all shared the unique challenge of coming to terms with freedom gained but also, identity lost.<\/p>\n

At its core, Provenance<\/em> is about the aspirations of generations of African-Americans and their determination to dictate their own destiny\u2014despite their\u00a0provenance.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"DDS<\/a>Donna Drew Sawyer advanced the creativity of others as a Madison Avenue advertising executive, public relations manager for Sesame Street and as a senior administrator for national arts organizations including the Chrysler Museum of Art and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Writing to attract audiences for others led her to start writing for an audience of her own. Born and raised in New York City, she now lives with her family near Washington, DC. PROVENANCE<\/em> is her first novel.<\/p>\n

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Provenance: A Novel<\/em><\/strong>
\nAuthor: Donna Drew Sawyer<\/p>\n

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Hardcover 289\u00a0pages – Price: $28.00
\nISBN: 978-09916143-4-9<\/p>\n

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\nISBN: 978-0-9916143-2-5<\/p>\n

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