After an accident at the community pool and the return of a long-absent community member, the secret-filled lives of the residents of Sycamore Glen, North Carolina can no longer remain hidden from view.
The Things We Wish Were True
β Scribed by Mayhew, Whalen Marybeth
- Book ID
- 108789211
- Publisher
- Lake Union Publishing
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 268 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781503936072
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β¦ Synopsis
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. 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 pastsβuntil an accident at the community pool upsets the delicate equilibrium. And when tragic circumstances compel a woman to return to Sycamore Glen after years of self-imposed banishment, the tangle of the neighborsβ intertwined lives begins to unravel. During the course of a sweltering summer, long-buried secrets are revealed, and the neighbors learn that itβs impossible to really know those closest to us. But is it impossible to love and forgive them?
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