The Truth According to Us
Annie Barrows
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
3.76
· 25 ratings · 493 pages · Published: 09 Jun 2015
Oh Lance, won't you please try to find it in your heart to take me in? I'm terribly lonely. How will I bear this place for three more months? Today alone has lasted years ...
Summer, 1938: the small town of Macedonia, West Virginia, is celebrating its 150th anniversary, to be commemorated with parades, picnics, and most importantly, a book recounting its history. Its reluctant author, the debutante Miss Layla Beck, recently disinherited by her father, arrives in town with one goal – to get out of it as quickly as possible.
Macedonia’s history seems simple enough - brief and uneventful. Then Layla meets the Romeyns: Jottie, Willa, Felix, Emmett, a family at once entertaining, eccentric, seductive, and inextricably bound up in Macedonia’s most well-kept historical secret – a secret yet to be told.
Annie Barrows’ The Truth According to Us will spirit you away into a town from a by-gone age, where customs and habits may be different, but where the hearts of its inhabitants, both dark and loving, remain recognisable to all.
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