Telling Secrets

by Wendy Lichtman

During her freshman year of college, Toby struggles with a painful secret--her father is in jail for embezzlement--that leaves her with feelings of guilt and alienation from her new friends

243 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1986

About the author

Wendy Lichtman writes personal essays for the Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Good Housekeeping, among other national publications. She holds a degree in mathematics and has tutored public-school students in algebra for the past several years. When she decided to write about a teen realizing that some questions have more than one right answer, algebra, with its unknowns and variables, seemed a perfect metaphor. Wendy Lichtman lives in Berkeley, California. (from the publisher's website)"