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Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era West Virginia mining town, works hard to help her family, experiences love and friendship, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in Depression-era West Virginia, works to help her family, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Hardcover:
9781416912620 | Simon & Schuster, February 6, 2007, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era West Virginia mining town, works hard to help her family, experiences love and friendship, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Paperback:
9781416912637 | Reprint edition (Simon Pulse, November 30, 2016), cover price $5.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â¢Â From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of loyalty and forgiveness, memory and truth, and the courage it takes to do whatâs right. Annie Barrows once again evokes the charm and eccentricity of a small town filled with extraordinary characters. Her new novel, The Truth According to Us, brings to life an inquisitive young girl, her beloved aunt, and the alluring visitor who changes the course of their destiny forever.In the summer of 1938, Layla Beckâs father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writersâ Project, a New Deal jobs program. Within days, Layla finds herself far from her accustomed social whirl, assigned to cover the history of the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia, and destined, in her opinion, to go completely mad with boredom. But once she secures a room in the home of the unconventional Romeyn family, she is drawn into their complex world and soon discovers that the truth of the town is entangled in the thorny past of the Romeyn dynasty. At the Romeyn house, twelve-year-old Willa is desperate to learn everything in her quest to acquire her favorite virtues of ferocity and devotionâa search that leads her into a thicket of mysteries, including the questionable business that occupies her charismatic father and the reason her adored aunt Jottie remains unmarried. Laylaâs arrival strikes a match to the family veneer, bringing to light buried secrets that will tell a new tale about the Romeyns. As Willa peels back the layers of her familyâs past, and Layla delves deeper into town legend, everyone involved is transformedâand their personal histories completely rewritten.Praise for The Truth According to UsâAs delightfully eccentric as Guernsey yet refreshingly different . . . an epic but intimate family novel with richly imagined characters . . . Willaâs indomitable spirit, keen sense of adventure and innate intelligence reminded me of two other motherless girls in literature: Scout Finch in Harper Leeâs To Kill a Mockingbird and Flavia de Luce in Alan Bradleyâs big-hearted British mystery series.ââThe Washington PostâThe Truth According to Us has all the characteristics of a great summer read: A plot that makes you want to keep turning the pages; a setting that makes you feel like youâre inhabiting another time and place; and characters who become people youâre sad to leave behindâand thus who always stay with you.ââMiami Herald âIt takes a brave author to make the heroine of a new novel an observant and feisty girl . . . like Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. . . . But Barrows . . . has created a believable and touching character in Willa.ââUSA Today â[A] heartwarming coming-of-age novel [that] sparkles with folksy depictions of a tight-knit family and life in a small town . . . full of richly drawn, memorable characters.ââThe Seattle Times âA big, juicy family saga with warm humor and tragic twists . . . The story gets more and more absorbing as it moves briskly along.ââSt. Louis Post-DispatchâAnnie Barrows leaves no doubt that she is a storyteller of rare caliber, with wisdom and insight to spare. Every page rings like a bell.ââPaula McLain, author of The Paris WifeFrom the Hardcover edition.
Hardcover:
9780385342940 | Dial Pr, June 9, 2015, cover price $28.00
Paperback:
9780385342957 | Reprint edition (Dial Pr, June 14, 2016), cover price $16.00
9780804194938 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, June 9, 2015), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â¢Â From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of loyalty and forgiveness, memory and truth, and the courage it takes to do whatâs right.
9780373271191, titled "Mirror, Mirror" | Harlequin Books, December 1, 2000, cover price $4.50 | also contains Mirror, Mirror | About this edition: WHAT SHE SAW:Fear.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781101889923 | Unabridged edition (Random House, June 9, 2015), cover price $50.00
Prebinding:
9780606388658 | Turtleback Books, June 14, 2016, cover price $28.20 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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