Every season, some titles pass me by, usually because they are dropped into the schedule too late for me to feature in a given month. Publishing in June, Annie Barrows’s The Truth According to Us (Dial. 512p. ISBN 9780385342940. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780812997842) is one title I don’t want you to miss. Fans of the phenomenon that was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will be thrilled that coauthor Barrows is back with another novel, again historical but situated on this side of the Atlantic during the Great Depression. More or less banished after refusing to marry the man her father has selected, senator’s daughter Layla Beck ends up in Macedonia, WV, writing a history of the town for the Federal Writer’s Project. Her presence as roomer in the home of the slightly crazy Romeyns brings out a passel of family secrets, but as the friendly town librarian says: “There is a problem with history. All of us see a story according to our own lights.” Catch Random VP and Executive Kara Cesare discussing this book on March 12th’s free “Editors’ Picks: Your Next Big Reads from HarperCollins, Penguin Publishing Group, and Random House.” Register here.from Reviews from Library Journal http://ift.tt/18FaM7N
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