From the Writer
On the book, the story behind the story, and what it means to write your family's truth.
For forty-one years I carried a rumor that turned out to be wrong about everything except the one thing it got right. Here's what made me write it down.
He said it from the pulpit for forty years. He was telling the truth every time. He just never had the courage to apply it to himself.
The names are changed. The truth is not. A note on the ethics of telling a story that belongs to more than one person.
What it feels like to grow up inside a lie someone else told. And what it feels like when science finally answers a question you've been afraid to ask.
The second book in the series follows the narrator's reckoning with having known Elias Cole as his pastor — not as his grandfather. Here's where we are.