If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

by Gregg Olsen

It isn’t a mask that she wears to cover the past but an invisible badge of courage.

Humor is her armor. It always has been.

Lara and Les came to know something that few understood in the late sixties and seventies: no one can help a troubled person who doesn’t think they need it.

loved my mother

because I didn’t know I had a choice. I had to love her.”

far-fetched, to say the least.

She didn’t cry about it.

Humor was the curtain she put around everything.