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From the coauthor of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel off Pie Modern culture comes a smart, witty, and exuberant book, perfect for lovers of Lee Smith, that illuminates the energy of commitment and forgiveness, storage and real truth, and the courage it requires to do what's right. Annie Barrows once again evokes the attraction and eccentricity of a small town filled with extraordinary heroes. Her new book, The Truth Regarding to Us, brings to life an inquisitive young woman, her loved aunt, and the attractive visitor who changes the course of their destiny forever. In the summertime of 1938, Layla Beck's father, a United States senator, slices off her allowance and needs that she find job on the Federal Writers' Project, a fresh Deal careers program. Within days and nights Layla discovers herself definately not her accustomed sociable whirl, assigned to hide the annals of the remote mill town of Macedonia, Western Virginia, and destined, in her judgment, to look completely mad with boredom. But once she secures an area in the home of the unconventional Romeyn family, she actually is drawn to their intricate world and soon discovers that the reality of the city is entangled in the thorny past of the Romeyn dynasty. With the Romeyn house, 12-year-old Willa is needy to learn everything in her quest to acquire her favorite virtues of ferocity and devotion - a search leading her into a thicket of mysteries, like the doubtful business that occupies her charismatic father and the reason her adored aunt Jottie remains unmarried. Layla's introduction strikes a match to the family veneer, taking to light buried secrets that will notify a new story about the Romeyns. As Willa peels back the layers of her family's previous and Layla delves more deeply into town star, everyone involved is transformed - and their personal histories completely rewritten.
