"It seems inconceivable that the government would fund writers, it seems so unlike the America we know," she says. Barrows has always been fascinated by the project set up during the Depression to find work for writers. It is set in 1938, with The Federal Writers' Project from real life at its core.
Like Guernsey, The Truth According to Us is full of eccentric characters. "This one day I was standing in the middle of town and I thought this is it, this is what I wanted to write about, this narrative, this counter-narrative, what family history means, how we are shaped by what we hear from our families." "I was walking into the trip with this idea of all these stories and then I got there and remembered the reality of the place, which is, I don't want to use the word bleak but that's sort of what it is, a little nothing town in a pretty unprepossessing state yet at the same time it's the centre of every story I grew up hearing. "In our family lore Martinsburg was more or less the centre of the world, you could find no more thrilling or cultured place, it was like Paris or London, the most exciting place in the world, everything happened in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
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