Most of What Follows is True

The prizewinning author of The Innocents examines the relationships among fact, fiction, fictionalization, and appropriation in this thought-provoking work. “In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business.” In Most of What Follows Is True , Michael Crummey examines the complex relationship between fact and fiction, between the “real world” and the stories we tell to explain i