"PROBING, BRILLIANT, MOVING, RATTLING A book about the cost of trust and the hard-won joy of finding yourself on the other side of betrayal. Patricia McCormick shows us what it looks like to survive a story and then rewrite it and it should be read by every woman who has ever doubted her own instincts and has ever needed a reason to trust them again." -- Jessica Soffer, author of This Is a Love Story , a New York Times bestseller and Read With Jenna Pick "Working with compassion and forensic clarity, Patricia McCormick probes the split between one's public and private self, finding language for a marriage's most painful transgressions. The memoir excavates the reverberations of betrayal and what happens when the man you married turns out to be a stranger--perhaps even to himself. In PAGE-TURNING, BEAUTIFUL PROSE, McCormick deftly unravels the knot and rediscovers herself, rebuilds her life, her family and her power." -- A.M. Homes, author of The Mistress's Daughter and Women's Prize Winner for May We Be Forgiven "McCormick is a genius at authentic interrogation.

Full of brilliance, pain, anger, and astonishingly thoughtful analysis, this memoir is impossible to set down until its final line. And I'm more alive for having read it." -- Rachel DeWoskin, award-winning author of Banshee "The 'blindside' that opens If It's True, I'd Want to Know ranks high among betrayals, yet McCormick MASTERFULLY HANDLES HER DEVASTATING MATERIAL WITH WIT, COM PASSION, AND RIGOR . She invites the reader into the fun-house mirror of her distorted marriage and manages to make the house-of-horrors ride into one that vanquishes bitterness and accepts the fallibility of being human." -- Jill Ciment, author of Consent "In this searing memoir of betrayal and its aftershocks, Patricia McCormick brings her experience as a journalist to the task as she fearlessly excavates her broken marriage . Relationship flaws are glaring in hindsight, but not everyone is bold enough to seek out the truth and stare it in the face. McCormick is willing to go there--literally and in spirit--into the deepest, coldest waters. Her commitment to self-examination and her skillful storytelling transform one woman's heartbreak into an uplifting page-turner that I inhaled in two sittings.

" -- Julie Metz, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection "If It's True, I'd Want to Know begins with betrayal, but Patricia McCormick is after something more elusive--and far richer--than the anatomy of an affair. With the rigor of a reporter and the intelligence of a writer unwilling to cast herself as an innocent bystander, she examines the stories we build around love, safety, memory, and the people we think we know. The result is a memoir of astonishing self-scrutiny, candor, and generosity--one that understands that discovering the truth is one thing; figuring out what to do with it is another." -- Adrienne Brodeur, bestselling author of Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me.