How can you not like a book that opens with: “Gerry Williams’s funeral was a shit show.” Suffice it to say, as the story moves onward…this is a mind-blowingly honest statement. A large family and a small town with a BIG secret becomes the setting for the book - If We’re Being Honest by Cat Shook. When the much-loved patriarch of this extended family dies suddenly, everyone is shocked but not as shocked when they find out that Gerry has been living with a monstrous lie his entire life. This family has to publicly circle the wagons and deal with a crisis that is the talk of the small town. It’s a reminder that families are imperfect and the center of many a shit show. Shenanigans ensue and more secrets evolves and a small town realizes that there are all kinds of way to love each other and to be kind. Funeral casseroles don't fix anything, but caring out your neighbor can fix many things.