A review by shirleytupperfreeman
The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows

I love the title and really enjoyed the book. The story takes place in small town, America during the height of the depression. A spoiled rich girl, whose Daddy is practicing tough love, reluctantly joins the WPA History project. She is assigned to write the history of fictional Macedonia. She boards with a family with secrets to spare. As in The Emperor's New Clothes, it takes the voice of a child to expose the truth of the town's, and her family's, history. But at what cost to the child?

I read the ARC for this novel to be published in June by the author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.