Belle’s parents, Richard and Genevieve, had a promising start in life. In several flashbacks, the reader learns more about Belle’s history. She also learns at a party at the Vanderbilt mansion that women in this world are bold and use flirtation as social currency, an approach that runs counter to the modesty and invisibility Genevieve, Belle’s mother, has always advised. Belle quickly learns that being white will not allow her to overcome prejudices against women working in the male-dominated field of art and rare book collecting. and the elite New Yorkers she encounters do not know is that Belle is a Black woman passing as white. Belle da Costa Greene, born Belle Marion Greener, is a Princeton-educated librarian who lands a high-profile job with steel magnate J.P.
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