Tell Me Something True
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A young Colombian-American woman uncovers the truth about her deceased mother's secret past in this beautiful and poignant debut novel from journalist Leila Cobo.
Gabriella always loved the picture of her mother kneeling in front of a bed of roses, smiling, beautiful and impossibly happy. But then she learns that her late mother hated gardening; that she had never wanted the house in the Hollywood hills, the successful movie producer husband, and possibly, her only daughter.
When Gabriella discovers a journal--a book that begins as a new mother's letters to her baby girl, but becomes a secret diary--the final entry leaves one question unanswered: the night her mother died, was she returning to Colombia to end an affair, or was she abandoning her family for good?
Tell Me Something True is the bittersweet story of a daughter learning to see her mother as a woman, and not just a parent.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cobo's sweet debut novel is the story of two women a mother and daughter and the love affairs that irrevocably changed their lives. Gabriella, 21, is a piano prodigy raised by her wealthy grandmother in Colombia and her movie producer father in Los Angeles. Her mother, Helena, was a renowned photographer who died when Gabriella was four. When she attends a party in the Hollywood Hills, Gabriella meets Angel, the man of her dreams. There's one catch: he's a mobster. As Gabriella tries to reconcile her conflicted feelings toward Angel, she discovers her mother's diary. Soon she is drawn into Helena's secret life, one that involved a passionate love affair. Betrayed and confused, Gabriela tries to find her mother's lover. But when her own romance begins to spiral out of control, Gabriella must come to terms with the fact that she's very much her mother's daughter. Cobo's well-drawn characters help bolster the story when Gabriella's tragic romance occasionally slides into melodrama. The smooth prose and authentic Colombian settings provide a unique spin to familiar territory.
