The Things We Wish Were True: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (613 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1522635440 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 262 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
But is it impossible to love and forgive them?. But behind the white picket fences lies a web of secrets that reach from house to house.Up and down the streets, neighbors quietly bear the weight of their own pastsuntil an accident at the community pool upsets the delicate equilibrium. In an idyllic small-town neighborhood, a near tragedy triggers a series of dark revelations.From the outside, Sycamore Glen, North Carolina, might look like the perfect all-American neighborhood. And when tragic circumstances compel a woman to return to Sycamore Glen after years of self-imposed banishment, the tangle of the neighbors’ intertwined lives begins to unravel.During the course of a sweltering summer, long-buried secrets are revealed, and the neighbors learn that it’s impossible to really know those closest to us
Marybeth spends most of her time in the grocery store but occasionally escapes long enough to scribble some words. Marybeth and her husband, Curt, have been married for twenty-four years and are the parents of six children, ranging from young adult to elementary age. She is always at work on her next novel. The family lives in North Carolina. Marybeth Mayhew Whalen is the au
"Quick and pleasant read. Page-turning." according to Alina. I picked this book as my August Kindle First read. Without giving anything away, I will try to review the novel.The story is told through multiple POV chapters of characters living in a close-knit suburban town - some of whom have never left and others who have had to return after years of being away. The chapters are short, slowly building up the story from various perspectives, and effectively ease the reader into the underlying mystery of the town and leave you wanting to keep reading the book to find out exactly what is going on. The characters are Quick and pleasant read. Page-turning. I picked this book as my August Kindle First read. Without giving anything away, I will try to review the novel.The story is told through multiple POV chapters of characters living in a close-knit suburban town - some of whom have never left and others who have had to return after years of being away. The chapters are short, slowly building up the story from various perspectives, and effectively ease the reader into the underlying mystery of the town and leave you wanting to keep reading the book to find out exactly what is going on. The characters are 3-dimensional, and their chapters noticeably differ in tone and writing. -dimensional, and their chapters noticeably differ in tone and writing. A Book I Wish Were Longer The Just-About-Average Ms. M After a miserable experience with July's Kindle First selection, I was tempted to pass August by. But the title of this book caught my attention, and it was as far removed from historical fiction--or in the last case, hysterical fiction--as I could find.Folks, this little book was a treasure, a journey sometimes pleasant, sometimes perilous, but always gripping, through a bucolic and almost too-good-to-be-true fictitious suburban enclave just outside the very real metropolis of Charlotte, NC. I can attest to the landscape's atmosphere conjured in deft, often lyrical prose by the author--I've been there and seen that back i. "In a pretty suburban neighborhood in the South, the neighbors know too little about each other and (sometimes) too much." according to Whistlers Mom. According to the description, this is a book about secrets. There ARE secrets in the middle-class enclave of Sycamore Glen, NC. Old ones and newer ones; important and trivial. Some are deep, dark secrets and some are the kind of secrets that people think they've kept under wraps until something happens that makes them realize that everyone knew all along. The smooth surface of social intercourse must be maintained and sometimes pretending not to notice what's right in front of your nose is the only thing to do.But it seems to me that on a deeper level it's a book about loss. The losses that all of us sustain as we go throu
The neighbor you think you knowbut do you really? The couple with the seemingly perfect marriageuntil the blinds are drawn. Or do we? This book upends the myth of the American dream, examines the secrets that hide beneath the drapes of a typical neighborhood, and, ultimately, provides a compassionate testament to the power of community.” —Library Journal“Whalen (The Bridge Tender, 2014) takes readers on a guided tour through the joys and the difficulties of small-town life. I utterly loved this novel.” —Ariel Lawhon, author of The Wife, th