Everyone Deserves a Home
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"We weren't born her children. And she was black before she was white."
New Orleans, 1904. Dr. Walter Nathan Humphrey-born to a plantation owner's wife, fathered by a man enslaved on his father's land-has spent his entire life passing for white. In his elegant home on St. Charles Avenue, he practices medicine from the parlor and manages secrets from the kitchen. Alongside him are the only people who have ever truly known him: Leatha, his lifelong companion and the sharpest mind in any room. ...






















