"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace,
thefifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake
Glimmerglass." So beginsThe Monsters of Templeton, a novel
spanning two centuries: part acontemporary story of a girl's
search for her father, part historical novel, andpart ghost
story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how
one townholds the secrets of a family. In the wake of a
wildly disastrousaffair with her married archaeology
professor, Willie Upton arrives on thedoorstep of her
ancestral home in Templeton, New York, where
herhippie-turned-born-again-Baptist mom, Vi, still lives.
Willie expects to be ableto hide in the place that has been
home to her family for generations, but themonster's death
changes the fabric of the quiet, picture-perfect town
herancestors founded. Even further, Willie learns that the
story her mother hadalways told her about her father has all
been a lie: he wasn't the random manfrom a free-love commune
that Vi had led her to imagine, but someone elseentirely.
Someone from this very town. As Willie puts her
archaeological skills to work digging forthe truth about her
lineage, she discovers that the secrets of her family
rundeep. Through letters, editorials, and journal entries,
the dead rise up to telltheir sides of the story as dark
mysteries come to light, past and present blur,old stories
are finally put to rest, and the shocking truth about more
than onemonster is revealed.
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