Andrea Lee is an author whose early journalistic work captures life in the Soviet Union. Her fiction and nonfiction writing has appeared in prominent literary publications. Lee is known for her insightful exploration of diverse cultures and societal dynamics.
The Italian phrase Mai due senza tre--"never two without three"--forms the basis of Andrea Lee's novel of betrayal, which reveals a trio caught in the grip of desire, deception, and remorse.--From publisher description.
This novel, in the words of its title character, is set in "the hermetic world of the old-fashioned black bourgeoisie--a group largely unknown to other Americans, which has carried on with cautious pomp for years in eastern cities and suburbs, using its considerable funds to attempt poignant imitations of high society, acting with genuine gallantry in the struggle for civil rights, and finally producing a generation of children educated in newly integrated schools and impatient to escape the outworn rituals of their parents."
For readers of Melissa Bank or Jhumpa Lahiri: witty, seductive stories of expatriate women, their loves and losses.