Daniel Freeman was eighteen years old when his mother, Johnnie, sat him down at the kitchen table for a serious conversation. What she told him changed his life forever. Johnnie was not his mother. Join Daniel, the mixed-race son of an internationally known African-American artist, as he discovers a collection of personal letters that reveal astonishing, secret details of his birth and life. Sit and read along with him, as things family members only talked about in hushed conversations, are finally brought to light. A unique narrative of life in post-war Europe, the complications of immigration law and the politics of citizenship, and a divorce case that kept a child separated from his parents until love finally reunited them

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