Kathryn Buckley Cowan
“A beautifully written tale of loss of innocence and life renewed, Kathryn Cowan’s Sacred Lies, Sober Truths tells a wife’s story of a long journey of silence, cruelty, resilience, coming out, and reawakening—a tale still too often lost, even as we begin to come to grips with the terrible costs of a long-closeted society.”
—Jennifer Lee Carrell, author of The Speckled Monster, Haunt Me Still, and Interred in Their Bones
“As we all know, good stories are honest stories, but until we open the doors of our psyche, we might not even know we have demons lurking. In the pages of this book, the author puts the clothing of language on one woman’s demons so that we can live vicariously in her world. Although the plot is fictional, the expose of the sixties culture, a culture that called into question many of the conventions that guided previous generations, is not. But one doesn’t open a Pandora’s box without consequences, so be prepared for a page turner.”
—Marilyn Thomas, author of The Diary: Sex, Death, and God in the Affairs of a Victorian Cleric; and I Sang in My Chains: A Memoir
