Things we knew were true

the long version

At sixteen Edie knows things. She knows that her mother is beautiful, that her older sister Stella is the golden girl of the family, and that her father - clumsy, quiet Vic - is loving, gentle, sometimes detached. She knows she loves Ricky, even if her parents don't approve. Then one autumn morning Vic fails to return from work. For twenty years Edie agonizes over the truth - what happened to her father? What became of her lost teenage love? Sifting through childhood belongings, Edie is faced with her unresolved past, and makes a passionate and dangerous attempt to return to it.