This historical fiction takes up the perspective of a ten year old girl whose father is an Italian "detainee" in Atlantic Canada during the Second World War. "Palermo uses a familiar YA style that makes the 1940s seem contemporary...The language is vivid...the story’s sense of a terrible wrongdoing comes across loud and clear." Quill & Quire | The Lie That Had To Be by Sharon Palermo, Paperback | Indigo Chapters