Her job? To restore that mural created by Anna but never installed in the post office. Morgan Christopher, another woman just barely twenty, narrates the other Big Lies in a Small Town chapters, telling a story that quite parallels Anna’s. Alternating chapters tell the story of her attempt to accomplish that difficult task. Instead, she must travel to distant North Carolina, familiarize herself with its local mores and culture, and quickly produce an acceptable artistic achievement. When she applied for the award, she hoped to be given the one available for her hometown in New Jersey. In 1939 Anna Dale won a prestigious Fine Arts award-one of only forty-eight-to design, paint, and install an 8’ x 12’ mural in the Edenton post office. Eighty years apart, two aspiring young artists arrive in that small town of big lies, Edenton, North Carolina. Intergenerational narratives have always appealed to me, so I thoroughly enjoyed Diane Chamberlain’s novel, Big Lies in a Small Town.
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