Still True
By Maggie Ginsberg
One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-old son she abandoned as an infant, shows up on her porch. Fiercely independent, Lib has never revealed her son’s existence—or previous marriage—to her husband, Jack....
“I could stay in this story for years.” - Luis Alberto Urrea
WINNER
2023 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award for Fiction
INAUGURAL SELECTION
2026 Wisconsin Reads: A Digital Book Club
FINALIST
2023 WFWA Star Award for Outstanding Debut
HONORABLE MENTION
2022 Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award
About Maggie Ginsberg
Maggie Ginsberg is the author of STILL TRUE (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022) and the forthcoming DAISY CHAIN (Blackstone Publishing, 2027). STILL TRUE received the Wisconsin Library Association’s 2023 WLA Literary Award for Fiction.
Alongside her fiction writing, Maggie has spent decades as a nonfiction writer and editor, publishing hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. She is the former managing editor of Madison Magazine, currently works as a writer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and is at work on her third novel.
