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Set in the 1930s, this poignant, funny, and utterly original novel tells the story of one lost girl’s struggle for truth, identity, and understanding amidst her family’s nomadic, unconventional lifestyle.
What’s the right way to behave, to think, to feel—if you’re always the new girl? How do you navigate life when you’re continually on the move? Do you lie? How do you even know if you’re lying? What’s the truth anyway?
It’s 1928 and nine-year-old Lucresse Briard is trying to make sense of life and the jumbled, often challenging family it’s handed her: a single art-dealer father who thinks nothing of moving from place to place; her brother, Ben, who succeeds in any situation and seems destined for stardom; and their houseman, Fred, who acts like an old woman. As Lucresse advances through childhood to adolescence, she goes from telling wild lies for attention to desperately seeking the truth of who she is as a sophistication-craving teenager in the 1930s.
Told from Lucresse’s perspective as a grown woman, The Trouble with the Truth transcends its time in the late 1920s and ’30s, and weaves the story we all live of struggling to learn who we are and the truth behind this human journey.
- Sales Rank: #1756231 in Books
- Brand: Robinson, Edna
- Published on: 2015-02-10
- Released on: 2015-02-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .70" w x 5.31" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
Review
STARRED Booklist review:
"...the story takes the reader from childhood to adulthood with intelligence, humor, and pathos, and a cast of characters worthy of Frank Capra. This is a little gem of a book."
Historical Novel Society review:
"This coming-of-age tale plunges us, like delighted house guests, into the midst of a family so eccentric and charming that we wish we never had to leave."
Fresh Fiction:
"a really sweet read."
From the Author
Who is Edna Robinson?
Representing a dead author is difficult. Edna Robinson, author of The Trouble with the Truth, was born in 1921 and died in 1990. Her novel, written around 1958-1960, was edited by me, Betsy Robinson (daughter). In anticipation of the launch of the book in February 2015, I went through Edna's papers. Here is the copy of a letter she sent to Tonight Show host Jack Paar, who ruled late-night TV from 1957 to 1962. In attempt to get him to consider some of her comedy bits, she introduces herself:
"My credits are kind of undynamic, unsprinkled with a list of names that would prod any network personality in his right mind to scream, "Get that girl!" They include seventy-eight million commercials for everything from Listerine Tooth Paste on through Phillips Motor Oil; an estimated two thousand ads for same and a small truckful of cosmetics; thirteen weeks of scripts (radio) for The Billie Burke Show; two or three years' editing and rewriting Grand Central Station, a contract show for WPAT, Paterson, New Jersey. (I don't remember much about that except that it was sponsored by a bank and the idea was to explore the beauties of Paterson in dull, little dramatic sketches in between the playing of scratchy records straight from the collection of the president of the bank. As far as he was concerned, only two men had ever composed music in the history of the world--Strauss and Offenbach--and he was determined to educate Patersonites to this fact.) Before my contribution to that effort, I was involved for a couple of years as a continuity writer with SGN in Chicago. And digging back even further to the gentle days of my girlhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, KVOO had a fifteen minute spot devoted daily to "Women's News"--and since nothing much was happening at the time to the women of Tulsa--this is the only way I can figure it out at this late date--I was employed to dig up, or make up the stimulating shows."
About the Author
Edna Robinson (1921–1990) was an author and copywriter, who wrote the famous Oreo cookie lyrics “A kid’ll eat the middle of an Oreo first” and such lines as “Navigators of the world since it was flat.” Her short story, “The Trouble with the Truth,” was first published in the 1959 edition of the New World Writing series and selected as one of the “most exciting and original” stories of its time by the editors. The story has now been expanded into a novel of the same name, edited by her daughter Betsy. For more information, go to BetsyRobinson-writer.com.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A Truly Great Read!!!
By Writer in Alaska
I loved this story and read it all fairly quickly, within three days. Edna Robinson writes with keen insights and a quick wit. I loved all of the characters -- each one so unique and memorable. I especially enjoyed Lucresse's perspective and the way Robinson helps us to share her views -- strange and sad and funny as they are. "People can only tell the truth as they see it," Lucresse's father tells her, "And everyone sees it differently." Edna Robinson encourages us to see the beauty and humor of many different truths, and to savor them all.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Written & lost for decades, this novel belongs on the shelf with CATCHER & MOCKINGBIRD.
By Chip Keyes
This is a fine novel and I mean that in all senses of the term. It is often comic, at times poignant, and never dull. (The manuscript itself has an amazing backstory of being lost & forgotten then resurrected and finally published decades later, but you can find that tale elsewhere. Well worth seeking out, BTW) I want to to talk about the book itself. Although it is an American period piece, set in the late '20s & early '30s, it is vivid-- no dust or cobwebs here. This work lives and breathes clearly today, as good and true as when it was written, its young narrator as clear-eyed as those of Catcher in the Rye & To Kill a Mockingbird. Ms. Robinson presents the world-- and Life-- as seen through the first person perspective of a quirky, intelligent young girl on the verge of adolescence. A time when young people-- if they have confidantes-- are ruthlessly and scrupulously honest with them, and honest about their own fears and shortcomings. We, as readers, become HER confidante. (We have ALL been this young person in one way or another, and it’s a shame so many of us forget how truthful, strong & open we are in those confused years.) For example, we hear about her outrageous youthful lies, why she tells them and why she abandons them. Her extended family is eccentric but loving in its way, and rings true as a real family. Our young narrator lost her mother long ago, and finds her way in the general direction of sex, womanhood & adulthood as best she can, while her family continually relocates. Nothing explicit or violent here. I’m not going to recap the story or theme, far better to read it. It’s suitable for any intelligent reader, from a 12 year old girl to me, a man in his 60s. I think it will entertain andspeak to many readers. Fully disclosure: I met Edna Robinson’s daughter Betsy many years ago, when we were both involved in the off-off Broadway theatre world.We reconnected via Facebook several years ago. She’s a wonderful writer herself (check her work out), who discovered and helped her late mother’s manuscript find its way to the long-delayed publication it deserves. (Betsy edited as well.) To be honest, the story of Betsy & Edna and “The Trouble With the Truth” would make a pretty intriguing book in its own right. But start here Edna's novel, and then move on to Betsy’s work.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Captivating and gorgeously written
By Mags
I loved this book. Captivating and gorgeously written, The Trouble with the Truth recounts a motherless girl’s journey through the Great Depression as new homes and significant relationships shift in and out of her world with little or no warning, and she struggles to find her place while never staying in any one place for very long.
Nine-year-old Lucresse Briard is blessed with uncommonly comfortable means at a time when most have little, thanks to her widowed father’s roving business as an “art-objects-investor-dealer-junkshop-keeper” (a depression-proof endeavor that litters the floors and walls of whatever home they’ve most recently landed in with priceless works of art). Yet, in comparison to those she sees around her, Lucresse is uncommonly uncomfortable. Never attending any one school for more than a few months, she doesn’t have time to ease into her social sets, so she copes with her ever-changing landscapes by reinventing herself—enrapturing the strangers who will briefly serve as her peers with wilder and wilder versions of her life—while her loving but oft-disconnected father attempts to help her adjust to each new school by throwing her a birthday party, regardless of the month.
As Lucresse grows into a teenager, she discards most of her lies and finds herself increasingly intrigued by the truth. With an older brother who acts out his life via scenes from Shakespeare, a father who introduced his children to Chaucer and Tolstoy in lieu of Dr. Seuss and swapped trips to kiddie-lands for the opera, a devoted “house man” who fits nowhere in the world but with their chaotic family and seems happiest when dressing and acting the part of chauffeur, and a maternal aunt whose accounts of Lucresse’s departed mother vary as wildly as she needs to support her latest case of the vapors, the “trouble with the truth” is something Lucresse is largely given free rein to sort out on her own. This quirky family is bound by true warmth, however, as is the book. Emotional truth is weighed no less heavily than factual evidence. Cleverness and creativity are as valued as veracity.
I read The Trouble with the Truth in three sittings, and was disappointed each time I set it aside. It’s a smart, funny, touching book. I enjoyed it from start to finish.
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