The Resource The truth according to us : a novel, Annie Barrows
The truth according to us : a novel, Annie Barrows
- Summary
- "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.""--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 491 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385342940
- Label
- The truth according to us : a novel
- Title
- The truth according to us
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Annie Barrows
- Subject
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- Historians
- Depressions
- Depressions -- 1929 -- West Virginia -- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- West Virginia
- History
- Historians -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- West Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Family secrets
- West Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Sagas
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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.""--
- Title
- The truth according to us
- Summary
- It is 1938 in a rural West Virginia town and a young woman arrives to write the town’s history. Layla doesn’t really know what to expect from the town, and the town doesn’t know what to make of her. This is the heart of the South, the soul of small towns, where everyone looks out for you and knows your history. Sweet story tailor-made for fans of Billie Letts, Fannie Flagg, Pat Conroy and Harper Lee. -- Kimberly McGee for LibraryReads
- Award
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2015
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10401467
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3602.A8373
- LC item number
- T78 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/titleStatement
- Annie Barrows
- Label
- The truth according to us : a novel, Annie Barrows
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 5732396
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 491 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385342940
- Lccn
- 2014037515
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn895256027
- (OCoLC)895256027
Subject
- Depressions
- Depressions -- 1929 -- West Virginia -- Fiction
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Sagas
- Family secrets
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historians
- Historians -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Manners and customs
- West Virginia
- West Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- West Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Adult books for young adults
- Cultural differences
- Depressions -- 1929-1941
- Eccentrics and eccentricities
- Family sagas
- Family secrets
- Historians
- Historical fiction
- Small town life -- West Virginia
- West Virginia -- History -- 20th century
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