Provenance: A Novel of Memory, Evidence, and What We Leave Behind

By Simon Imuwika

Some objects remember more than their owners ever intended.

Ione has spent years trying to discipline an extraordinary ability: when she touches certain objects, she sees a brief, vivid moment from their past.

After her father's death, the belongings he leaves behind become impossible to ignore. A watch, a photograph, a lamp-each may contain a fragment of a life she thought she understood. But fragments are not explanations, and what an object reveals is not necessarily the truth of the whole story.

As Ione searches through family memories, buried choices and old silences, her gift begins to threaten the boundaries between evidence and assumption, intimacy and intrusion. The more she discovers, the harder one question becomes to escape:

Does knowing the truth give you the right to uncover it?

At the same time, Ione must learn to build a life among the living rather than continually interrogating the dead.

PROVENANCE is an atmospheric, emotionally intelligent novel about grief, family, love, memory and the dangerous human desire for certainty-perfect for readers who enjoy literary fiction with a speculative edge and book-club novels built around an irresistible moral question.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDQWVPV1
• ISBN13: 9798191994581
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.2" x 5.3"