Edna Robinson (1921-1990) wrote a short story, "The trouble with the truth," that was first published in the 1959 edition of the New World. The story was expanded into this novel. Edna Robinson's daughter Betsy Robinson edited the novel.
Summary:
Lucresse Briard reflects on her journey to adulthood in the late-1920s and '30s, in which she and her older brother Ben moved around the country with their art-dealer father and their houseman, Fred.
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