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I Meant to Tell You

Fran Hawthorne

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"I Meant to Tell You kept me turning the pages late into the night."
--Jennifer Coburn, USA Today best-selling author of Cradles of the Reich

When Miranda Isaac's fiancé, Russ Steinmann, is being vetted for his once-in-a-lifetime dream job in the U.S. attorney's office, the couple worries that Miranda's parents' history as political activists in the Sixties could jeopardize Russ' security clearance. But the real threat emerges when Russ's future boss discovers that Miranda was arrested for felony kidnapping nearly a decade earlier--an arrest she'd never revealed to Russ.

Miranda tries to convince Russ she was only helping her best friend, Ronit--caught up in a nasty custody battle--take her daughter to visit her parents in Israel. As Miranda struggles to prove that she's not a criminal, she either makes matters worse or stumbles into more secrets. With everything she thought she knew upended, Miranda must face the truth about her family, herself, and her future marriage.

I Meant to Tell You is "an absorbing, beautifully told story" of how tenaciously we hang onto family stories and what happens when we finally let go.


FINALIST for the ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARDS
FINALIST for the SARTON AWARD
FINALIST for the NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS (two categories)


Book Details

  • Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
  • Publish Date: Aug 23rd, 2022
  • Pages: 260
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.61in - 0.87lb
  • EAN: 9781622889341
  • Categories: • Jewish• Political• Women

About the Author

FRAN HAWTHORNE spent three-plus decades writing award-winning nonfiction, including eight books, before returning to her childhood love: writing fiction. I MEANT TO TELL YOU is her second published novel.

Praise for this book

"Fran Hawthorne delivers a nuanced exploration of the connections among women - and how they can unravel when lies of omission are revealed. Told through the eyes of three women in different eras, I Meant to Tell You kept me turning the pages late into the night."
--Jennifer Coburn, USA Today best-selling author of Cradles of the Reich


"Fran Hawthorne has written a wise, kind, and above all compassionate novel about the secrets we keep and the judgments we make. Her insights into the human heart and mind are both original and illuminating; this is a big-hearted book that is sure to warm yours."
--Yona Zeldis McDonough, Fiction Editor of Lilith magazine


"I Meant to Tell You opens with a white lie, a small dishonesty. But it widens to reveal that the people we think we know may all be hiding behind convenient mistruths. In that way it is a compelling portrait of our times, stuffed with richly drawn characters and alive with sharp and glimmering prose. A literary page-turner about how our pasts always catch up with us."
--Brian Castleberry, author of Nine Shiny Objects (long-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction)


"An absorbing, beautifully told story about how tenaciously we hang onto family myths --and how, once one secret is revealed, other truths come into the light."
--Janice Steinberg, author of The Tin Horse (winner, San Diego Book Award)