Book Club Discussion with Special Guest

About the Book and Author

Jim Thomson grew up in Pittsburgh and attended Harvard College on a scholarship. He served as the navigator of a Navy ship off the coast of Vietnam, then earned a Ph.D. in American Studies. After a brief stint in academia, he had a successful career in business. His novel, Lies You Wanted to Hear, received wide acclaim. Jim and his wife live outside of Boston. They have five far-flung children and eleven grandchildren.

In September 1974, Jim Thomson learned that his younger sister, Eileen, had taken her own life. Only twenty-seven years old, she was a bright, bubbly secretary, married to her high school sweetheart, Vic, now a cop in San Bernardino, California. But, when Jim returned to the family home for the funeral, it soon emerged that Eileen had been depressed that summer, her storybook marriage racked by infidelity and guilt, until one…