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TRUE STORY
Inventive, electrifying and daring, TRUE STORY is a novel like nothing you've ever read before
After a college party, two boys drive a girl home: drunk and passed out in the back seat. Rumors spread about what they did to her, but later they'll tell the police a different version of events. Alice will never remember what truly happened. Her fracture runs deep, hidden beneath cleverness and wry humor. Nick - a sensitive, misguided boy who stood by - will never forget. That's just the beginning of this extraordinary journey into memory, fear and self-portrayal. Through university applications, a terrifying abusive relationship, a fateful reckoning with addiction and a final mind-bending twist, Alice and Nick will take on different roles to each other - some real, some invented - until finally, brought face to face once again, the secret of that night is revealed.
Startlingly relevant and enthralling in its brilliance, TRUE STORY is by turns a campus novel, psychological thriller, horror story and crime noir, each narrative frame stripping away the fictions we tell about women, men and the very nature of truth. It introduces Kate Reed Petty as a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction.
Kate lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She's been recognized with a Narrative Magazine "30 Below" Award, and a 2017 Rubys Artist Project Grant. Her short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Blackbird, Ambit, Nat. Brut., and her nonfiction in LA Review of Books. She's the author, with artist Boya Sun, of a children's graphic novel, CHASMA KNIGHTS, just published by First Second. Kate has had residencies at Bloedel Reserve and The Mount, and has a Master of Letters from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
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Published 2020-08-04 by Viking |