The Truthful Story
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ISBN / ASIN099785300X
ISBN-139780997853001
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Sales Rank972,945
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
- Best New Fiction 2017 International Book Awards
- Gold Medal Best Regional Fiction (Southeast) 2017 Independent Publisher Book (IPPY) Awards
- Winner Regional Fiction (Southeast) 2017 National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA)
- Grand Prize 2017 Great Southeast Book Festival
- Finalist Best New Fiction-2017 National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA)
- Southern Book Prize Nominee 2017
When ten-year-old Genevieve Donovan's Nannie dies mysteriously in the Lowcountry river she's loved and lived near all her life, Genny and her family are heartbroken. In 1960s South Carolina, new industry is encroaching on old country, and Genny fears her grandmother may have gotten in the way of so-called progress. Even Daduh, Nannie's dearest friend and longtime housekeeper, doesn't know what to make of Nannie's death. Was it an accident, or did the drunkard son of a local businessman play a role? What's more, ever since Nannie passed, Genny has been hearing and seeing things she's not sure she can share with anyone except her mother, whose own grief is making it harder and harder to get through to her. Seeking answers, longing for guidance, and unsure if Mama will ever be the same again, Genny gingerly forges a path out of childhood and into adolescence. As Genny struggles to understand justice, healing, and a world in which Nannie is gone but still present, The Truthful Story traces a family's difficult journey through the pain of loss and the survival of love.
