Flashes and Lies

by Claire V. Korn

Can the truth set you free if you don't know how to lie? Teddie--Theodora Waterford Olds--is trapped in truth. A menopausal court reporter with two grown children, a philandering husband, a bitchy sister, and an impossibly demanding, seldom truthful mother, Teddie will not, cannot tell even the whitest of lies. Yet, on a snowy Detroit afternoon, after she has thrown herself on a fleeing bank robber, change sets in. With the first lie to her mother, the famed photographer Thea Waterford, she begins to take control of her life. Cascading falsehoods follow. He life disintegrates, then reshapes, as does her relationship wih her dying mother.

206 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002