The dramatic final chapter of the Augustus Family Trilogy.
If you have read FAMILY LIES and FAMILY MATTERS this book will complete the story, If you haven’t read either title, FAMILY MYTHS stands alone as a coming of age story.
Once again an Augustus is protecting themselves and the family name with lies. In 1960, rich, pampered, Elizabeth Augustus leaves college and disappears into the developing, San Francisco, California hippy scene. Her father, who is tormented by guilt over his unwillingness to tell his daughter Elizabeth that she was, in fact, his child, hires a detective. The search goes on for years as Elizabeth hides in plain sight, living a life completely unlike the one she imagined when she ran away.
Eighteen-year-old Elizabeth created a fake identity. As she matures, and changes, her new identity matures with her, and she becomes whoever she believes she needs to be in order to be accepted.
Beneath the shield of her lies, Elizabeth’s deceptions become her truth and the truth of all who know her.