The Cost of Being True

Respect tradition. Protect the family name. And when necessary, distort reality.

1965 Columbia, South Carolina. For generations, the True family has lived by these unspoken rules... until sixteen-year-old Lydia arrives at her aunt Cecyl and grandmother Annie's home with an innocent high school assignment: interview your oldest relative. Prompted by sharp-tongued Cecyl, the family's black sheep, a decades-long saga unfolds. As Lydia pieces together her family's hidden past, she confronts the ...