Despite her certainty, she tries one last, desperate time to gain Netano’s favor by embarrassing a rival political family. In a society where prestige and power are handed down by taking on a parent’s name, Ingray knows that it’s likely her brother will be the next Netano Aughskold. The reader meets Ingray Aughskold just as her latest plan to gain her foster mother’s approval falls apart. PROVENANCE plays out on an intimate scale, the coming-of-age story of a woman who should have come into her own years ago. While the scope is broad, covering an uneasy interstellar treaty and the implications of a society obsessed with origins and authenticity, the real focus is on Ingray Aughskold, a foster child from a public crèche, acutely aware that in her mother’s eyes, she has always lacked “a certain something” (423). Ann Leckie’s PROVENANCE ( Amazon) is not a space opera.
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