num_pages: 327
description: From a National Book Award winner comes a masterful novel set in the 1940s about a woman finding a new life for herself and her grown children after her husband's death.
language: English
title: The Truth of the Matter: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Truth of the Matter: A Novel
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, United States, Adult Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 230
places: Ohio
publisher: Back Bay Books