<p><strong><em>Finalist, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction andEileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book,2016 Manitoba Book Awards</em></strong>From the killing fields of Europe to the merciless beauty of the Canadian prairies,<em> Let Us Be True </em>tells the story of three women whose lives have been shaped and damaged by secrets-their own and those that stretch back through time, casting their shadow from one generation to the next.Pearl Calder, a woman in her seventies, has thrown away her past and kept it a secret from her daughters. But as Pearl confronts her own mortality, she begins to understand what her dead husband, Henry, has always known: Secrets are like dark and angry ghosts. And they don't just haunt you. They haunt everyone you love.With a life that spans the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the deep conservatism of the postwar boom, Pearl's secrets are rooted in events over which she had no control: the death of her mother; a father destroyed by war; a brother who adores her but who dies on the beaches of Dieppe, and a sister who abandons Pearl to save herself. Alternating between the past and present, and between Pearl's voice and those of her family members, both living and dead, <em>Let Us Be True</em> explores how all of our lives, to a greater or lesser degree, are shaped by secrets: our own as well as ancestral secrets we may know nothing about, but which affect who we are and who we become.</p>