Linda’s Book Obsession Reviews “Everything We Thought Was True” by Lisa Montanaro, Red Adept Publishing, January, 2025. On tour with Suzy Approved Book Tours

“Everything We Thought Was True” by Author Lisa Montanaro is a unique, powerful, thought-provoking and memorable novel. In this well-written novel, the author vividly describes her colorful and dramatic characters as complex and complicated. The protagonist, Lena Antinori, a married attorney specializing in fighting discrimination in the LGBTQ community, has secrets that cause her anxiety. In Lena’s family, her mother, Teresa has wanted her Catholic family protected from social stigma, by keeping quiet.

Lena had discovered that her father Frank loved his boat, as well as other men, when she was 13. In the present, Frank wants to marry his partner, and would like Lena to make plans for the wedding. Lena wants to see her father happy, and yet feels like she is betraying her mother.

I appreciate how Lisa Montanaro discusses this situation from the point of view from the children of parents who have come out. The children have to accept the truth, and embrace it, in order to feel free. I highly recommend this important and thought-provoking novel to others.