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Lil and Frank married young, after bonding over how they both lost a parent when they were children. Now that they are retired, Lil is determined to leave a history for their own kids. She sifts through letters and diary entries, uncovering old stories—and revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Empathetic and profound, this novel from master storyteller Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and to be a child trying to know your parents, trying to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory.