{"product_id":"let-us-be-true-9781998273065","title":"Let Us Be True","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinalist for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Manitoba Book Awards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the killing fields of Europe to the merciless beauty of the Canadian prairies, \u003cem\u003eLet Us Be True\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of three women whose lives have been shaped and damaged by secrets-their own and those that stretch back through time, casting their shadow from one generation to the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the novel is seventy-four-year-old Pearl Calder, a woman who has thrown away her past and kept it a secret from her daughters. But as Pearl confronts her own mortality, she begins to understand what her dead husband, Henry, has always known: secrets are like dark and angry ghosts. And they don't just haunt you. They haunt everyone you love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternating between the past and present, and between Pearl's voice and the voices of her family members, both living and dead, the story explores how all of our lives, to a greater or lesser degree, are shaped by secrets: our own as well as ancestral secrets we may know nothing about, but which affect who we are and who we become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePearl is no exception. With a life that spans the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the deep conservatism of the postwar boom, Pearl's secrets are rooted in events over which she had no control: the death of her mother; a father destroyed by war; a brother who adores her but who dies on the beaches of Dieppe, and a sister who abandons Pearl to save herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Shadowpaw Press Reprise","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50458351829266,"sku":"9781998273065","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e3f0a5f4-21d9-454d-96c4-1661325e60d6.jpg?v=1729961281","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/let-us-be-true-9781998273065","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}