Something True

Vera has spent a lifetime being very good at fine. She has done everything right. That turns out to be the problem.There is a patio table set for six in a house where she is the only regular guest. There is a man of seven years who adores her and still can't choose her. And tomorrow, she walks away from the company where she spent eleven years being the person who knows where everything is and how to fix it.She has no plan. What she has is a blank document that begins I want to write something true.Then a health scare finishes off her patience for a life that only looks good in photos, and Vera does the thing she has been circling for years. She tells the truth. It brings her a bookshop she keeps orbiting like a stray, old friends who finally get the real story, and a letter from her younger self asking the one question she has spent her whole adult life dodging.Something True is a novel about starting over in the middle of a life you already built. About telling the truth to the people who remember your worst haircut, and finally to yourself. About the difference between being adored and being chosen.The quiet fury. The woman nobody heard until she wrote it down.For readers of Katherine Heiny, Meg Mason, and Catherine Newman.