Maggie Ginsberg
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Still TrueIn a family built on honesty, when does a secret become a lie? One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-old son she abandoned as an infant, shows up on her porch. Fiercely independent, Lib has never revealed her son’s existence—or her previous marriage—to her husband, Jack. Married nearly three decades but living in separate houses (to the confusion but acceptance of their neighbors), they enjoy an ease and comfort together in small-town Anthem, Wisconsin. But Jack is a stickler for honesty, and Lib’s long-dormant secret threatens to unravel their lives.
“It’s a rare experience to feel gratitude for a book’s pleasures on nearly every page. But Maggie Ginsberg has written that book. I could stay in this story for years.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and best-selling author of The Devil’s Highway and The House of Broken Angels “Deeply felt and vivid. . . . Even as each of its characters curates a careful present, the shadows of the past creep up to confront them. When those realities collide, the result is troubling, affecting, and deeply true.” —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author The Deep End of the Ocean “Still True feels as intimate as eavesdropping, with characters so well drawn and so believable there is a sense that they are in the room with you as you read about their sometimes turbulent, sometimes mild lives.” —Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Little Faith “In Still True, Maggie Ginsberg explores not only the physical distances that separate her characters but also the charged emotional spaces between truth and lies, the present and the past, right and wrong. Not since Kent Haruf have I read an author so skilled at capturing the nuance and complexity of small-town life with empathy and respect.”—Christina Clancy, author of Shoulder Season and The Second Home Available for order:
Maggie Ginsberg is an editor at Madison Magazine and an award-winning writer for city, regional and national magazines. Still True is her first novel. Find her on TikTok @maggieginsbergauthor
Tags: Adult, Contemporary, Literary
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