Just the Facts

A Novel

Ellen Sherman

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631529948
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

Finalist, 2016 National Indie Excellence Awards (Fiction - General)
Finalist, 2016 International Book Awards (Fiction - General)
Finalist, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Two categories: General Fiction/Novel, under 80,000 words, and Second Novel)
Finalist, 2015 USA Best Book Awards (Women's Fiction)
When English major Nora Plowright finds herself staring at college graduation as if at the edge of a cliff, she decides to become a newspaper reporter—and right away, she manages to get a job at a local paper (which you could still do in 1978). Although fearful by nature, Nora pursues a tip from a stranger and soon is investigating corruption at the Maryland State Highway Authority regarding the controversial placement of a major highway. The developing scandal, with its shady “players,” tests both her budding reportorial skills and her appetite for danger. Also, her passion for storytelling makes it increasingly difficult for her to stick to the facts. Honest and humorous, Just the Facts is a coming-of-age novel about finding one’s way in the real world that will resonate with anyone who has struggled with figuring out what to do when she or he grows up. Honest and humorous, Just the Facts is a coming-of-age novel about finding one’s way in the real world that will resonate with anyone who has struggled with figuring out what to do when she or he grows up.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter One: Fall Forward
• Chapter Two: Anne Arundel County
• Chapter Three: The SHA
• Chapter Four: Toeing the Party Line
• Chapter Five: Step Lively
• Chapter Six: Local Heroes
• Chapter Seven: Old Morality
• Chapter Eight: Perfectly Normal
• Chapter Nine: Fires, Trains, Roads
• Chapter Ten: Old Mortality
• Chapter Eleven: For the Birds
• Chapter Twelve: Connor Aloysius Hannah
• Chapter Thirteen: The Fearful Me
• Chapter Fourteen: Rich in Beginnings, Poor in Conclusions (from Gates of Prayer)
• Chapter Fifteen: Whining and Dining
• Chapter SixteenL Let It Rip
• Chapter Seventeen: Hullabaloo
• Chapter Eighteen: Spring Back
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author