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The author of 1959, a Los Angeles Times Book Award nominee, returns with the tale of a woman's obsessive search for the truth behind her best friend's death. Alive with wit and sensibility, Maker of Saints is a fascinating and provocative novel about art, love, jealousy and friendship in a glitzy New York demimonde.

Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the "white folk" in her family, a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to her-and uncovers a history far richer and stranger than she had ever imagined. Her journey challenges us to examine the origins of some of our most deeply ingrained notions about what makes a family black or white, and offers an immensely compelling, intellectually challenging alternative.