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Everything We Thought Was True: A Novel

Author:
Lisa Montanaro
Read by:
Annalee Scott
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Book
2
Narrator
2
Release Date
May 13, 2025
Duration
10 hours 33 minutes
Summary
Los Angeles lawyer Lena Antinori has dedicated her career to fighting discrimination, including for the LGBTQ community, but her own family's secret haunts her. At thirteen years old, she made the startling discovery that her father, Frank, was gay and her mother, Teresa, knew. Fearing social stigma, Teresa instituted a code of silence meant to protect their Italian Catholic family—a code Lena adhered to for decades.



Now, Frank plans to marry his partner, and he wants Lena to help plan the wedding. Lena is torn between maintaining loyalty to her mother and supporting her father's newfound happiness. As her father's wedding approaches, Lena learns her childhood wounds run deeper than she thought, and failing to heal them might sentence her to a life of hypocrisy and the inability to discover the true meaning of coming out.



Told by Lena in the present, and her parents in the past, Everything We Thought Was True examines how the truth doesn't set you free until you embrace it.
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Profile Avatar Anonymous Jun 2025

This was a well-developed family drama. Lena, a successful lawyer who has spent her career standing up for civil rights and the LGBTQ community, and pretty early on we learn that she found out her own father was gay when she was a child and that her mum knew the whole time. Now that her mum has passed on and her father is living his authentic life, he wants to get married to the person he loves and has asked Lena to help plan the wedding. In doing so, Lena discovers that she may not have healed from her childhood, with the keeping secrets and trying to preserve her family image. I liked the multiple POV, it was easy to go back and forth and how Lena's love for her father shines through, even while struggling with accepting his role in her trauma. The narrator did a great job moving back and forth between times and characters and kept pace really well. Thanks to Tantor Media for the gifted copy.

Everything We Thought Was True: A Novel

Everything We Thought Was True: A Novel

Author: Lisa Montanaro
Read by: Annalee Scott
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