02194cam a2200337 i 4500 1262084731 TxAuBib 141103s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014037515 9780385342940 hardcover; acid-free paper 0385342942 hardcover; acid-free paper (OCoLC)21038 DLC eng rda DLC YDX YDXCP BTCTA BDX OCLCF EYP QX9 ZHB VP@ CDX INR OCLCO STF UtOrBLW TxAuBib rda Barrows, Annie, author. The truth according to us : a novel / Annie Barrows. First edition. New York : The Dial Press, [2015] 491 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""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. Historians Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Depressions 1929 West Virginia Fiction. Fiction. West Virginia History 20th century Fiction. West Virginia Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. History.