{"id":78414,"date":"2015-10-14T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T16:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=78414"},"modified":"2015-10-21T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T20:06:58","slug":"building-the-buzz-on-provenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=78414","title":{"rendered":"Building the Buzz On PROVENANCE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my publisher&#8217;s publicity department! I like it!<\/p>\n<h2>PROVENANCE ON SALE NOW!<br \/>\nSweeping Debut Novel Explores America&#8217;s &#8220;Third Race.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hardcover-and-eBook-Image-616-x550.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-78302\" src=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hardcover-and-eBook-Image-616-x550-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Hardcover and eBook Image 616 x550\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hardcover-and-eBook-Image-616-x550-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Hardcover-and-eBook-Image-616-x550.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In America, racial identity has never been just Black or White. Long before the idea of post-racial, there was Passing. In her epic debut novel, PROVENANCE (Creative Cache; $26.00; October 15, 2015), Donna Drew Sawyer explores America\u2019s third race\u2014Americans whose ambiguous looks allow them to pass, undetected, into another racial group.<\/p>\n<p>With the art world as its backdrop, PROVENANCE weaves historical fact with fiction to paint a vivid picture of race in America from the perspective of one family across three generations. It is a sweeping, complex, art infused coming-of-age story like Donna Tartt\u2019s The Goldfinch; akin to Lalita Tademy\u2019s Cane River as a family saga and, its flawed yet captivating characters evoke Philip Roth\u2019s The Human Stain. PROVENANCE\u2019s haunting tale of fear and secrets is also reminiscent of Nella Larsen\u2019s seminal classic on race, Passing. PROVENANCE is perfect book club fiction\u2014a page-turner that keeps readers pondering long after the final page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Provenance-Press-Release-FINAL-10-21-15.pdf\">Provenance Press Release FINAL 10-21-15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my publisher&#8217;s publicity department! I like it! PROVENANCE ON SALE NOW! Sweeping Debut Novel Explores America&#8217;s &#8220;Third Race.&#8221; In America, racial identity has never been just Black or White. Long before the idea of post-racial, there was Passing. In her epic debut novel, PROVENANCE (Creative Cache; $26.00; October 15, 2015), Donna Drew Sawyer explores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,125,17],"tags":[44,126,49,81,124],"class_list":["post-78414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-provenance-launch","category-publicity","tag-creative-cache","tag-debut-author","tag-donna-drew-sawyer","tag-passing","tag-provenance-by-donna-drew-sawyer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78414"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78436,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78414\/revisions\/78436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}