THE TRUTH COMMISSION

A quirky, darkly funny look at one girl’s quest for the truth.

Normandy Pale and her two best friends are the Truth Commission, confirming the school rumors that no one is bold enough to ask about. All the while, Normandy is avoiding the truth closest to home: What has happened to her older sister, Keira?

An artistic wunderkind with a major publishing deal for her graphic novels based, in part, upon their family, Keira dropped out of art college suddenly, and moved back home. Now she’s holed up in her studio, every so often telling Normandy bits and pieces of what happened, and they are adding up to a very disturbing story.

The Truth Commission is written in the form of Normandy’s junior year narrative nonfiction project -- a blend of meta-text, footnotes, drawings, and straightforward narrative -- that is a coming-of-age story, a mystery, a romance, and, above all, hilarious.

Susan Juby has written five novels for teenagers, all published by Harper US. The most well-known is ALICE, I THINK, the first of the Alice MacLeod trilogy, which was made into a successful television series. She is also the author of the adult comic novel THE WOEFIELD POULTRY COLLECTIVE, and is currently finishing its sequel. Susan Juby lives in Nanaimo, BC, Canada.