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Author Barrows, Annie.

Title The truth according to us : a novel / Annie Barrows.

Publication Info. New York : The Dial Press, [2015]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F BARROWS, A.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION BARROWS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F BARROWS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F BARROWS    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC BARROWS    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION BARROWS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION BARROWS    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  F BAR    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F BARROWS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION BARROWS    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 491 pages ; 25 cm
Summary Taking a job with the Federal Writer's Project after refusing to marry, Miss Layla Beck boards with an eccentric family in a backwater town before discovering long-kept secrets.
"Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Macedonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture in the town, their identity tied to its knotty history. Layla enters their lives and lights a match to the family veneer and a truth comes to light that will change each of their lives forever in deeply personal and powerful ways. As Layla embarks on this grand adventure to establish historical moments in print, her first friend, the town librarian Ms. Betts wisely cautions: "There is a problem with history. All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity.""-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Historians -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- West Virginia -- Fiction.
West Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
West Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780385342940 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0385342942 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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