"All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story." 
 Reclusive author Vida Winter sets the tone immediately with the above. The reader is presented with a grandiose story that eventually peels away to reveal its unsavory, shocking, and twist-filled version of the truth. 
 I absolutely loved this book from start to finish! Why did I wait so long to read it?