North Carolina -- Fiction

Overview "I Was Going to Lie is a novel-in-stories told from a range of perspectives following Catherine, a woman born in 1990 Brooklyn, New York, struggling with the disappearance of her father and seeking answers to the slew of partial-truths reported to her about him. But her pious mother, Joyce—sworn to secrecy by her locally-famous ex-in-laws— needs no excuse to estrange her daughter from the man who has betrayed her by revealing his truth: a decade-long affair with another man. When Catherine's...