The Affair by Alicia Clifford
A beloved matriarch lived a rich life full of love and happiness — at least that’s what she’s led everyone to believe. When she passes away, leaving behind dozens of novels and diaries, her children and grandchildren are taken aback to discover just how successful a writer she really was. They also uncover a lifetime’s worth of betrayals. With their lives turned upside down, they struggle to understand just who they are in the face of their revised family history.
The Affair, Alicia Clifford, $30.
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