True Story, Kate Reed PettyA brilliant and genre defying novel about rape, memory and the nature of truth from an exciting new voice in contemporary US fiction 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. Rumours spread about what they did to her, but later they'll tell the police a different version of events. Alice will never remember

often without our knowledge

he discovers there never was a memoir

A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting

who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey

getting dumped

between two scientists intent on discovering the mysteries of DNA

and strings in a system of floats to keep the gears running

including Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary

at every turn

To make it work

adversaries

Times journalist