Poems and Stories

Friday, August 22, 2025

PROVENANCE

 

Today, August 22, 2025 I submitted my book "Provenance" to Kindle Direct Publishing as a Kindle book and as a Paperback.  This is the Synopsis:

"Provenance is a fictionalized non-fiction.  My grandfather was Cuban Consul General under Fulgencia Batiste and in 1937 was asked to take 9 paintings dating from as far back as 1600 by old masters to the USA to be held for sale.  (true)  Marguerite, the heroine of the story was a young student at Bowdoin who becomes a reporter and tries to trace the provenance of the paintings to Cuba.  In her search, she learns she was adopted FROM Cuba and begins a simultaneous search there for her birth mother, Viola Morales."

This is the cover I choose.  It is The Statue of The Republic from the Capital Building of Cuba "El Capitolio" In my story, Marguerite's mother Viola posed for the statue