A Version of the Truth

More intelligent than the average chick lit genre where it is placed.
Cassie Shaw has had a hard life. She is not school "smart." She has had a loveless marriage of three years, when her husband dies in a car accident, and she has no money and no future.
She gets a job as an admin at a local California college and lied on her application that she is a college graduate. And here the trouble begins!
I really loved this book. It was charming, delightful, well written (was it really written by 2 women? it was flawless!) intelligent, with wonderful characters and dialogue!

The audio was very sweet---I loved Sam, the parrot. The problems of what happens when the truth is just under the surface makes for an endearing story about an appealing girl, Cassie, who seems to have "almost" all of the qualities one would want in a young person, except for that little issue of not quite telling the truth when applying for a job.

A Fabulous Read: I just finished a Version of the truth which is an absolutely terrific read ... it's just so wonderfully written ... the observations and reflections are thought-provoking at every turn ... and the characters are painted in ways that we have met them all but now see them far clearer ... Kaufman and Mack have again shown themselves to be gifted story tellers.

Chick lit. I picked it up because the pull quote on the front is from Nature and reads "It's The Devil Wears Prada meets Walden Pond." Um, sort of? Solid, but unremarkable.

Kinda quirky, fun read. One of those books where the lead learns something about them self and becomes a better person.

Wonderful, humourous tale of a quirky young woman and her quest to be "normal".

Cassie Shaw has never done well in school, but she finds herself widowed young and completely broke, so she lies about her education to get a university job. This is an entertaining chick lit read.