"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the   fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass."  So begins   The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a   contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and   part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how one town   holds the secrets of a family.  In the wake of a wildly disastrous   affair with her married archaeology professor, Willie Upton arrives on the   doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York, where her   hippie-turned-born-again-Baptist mom, Vi, still lives. Willie expects to be able   to hide in the place that has been home to her family for generations, but the   monster's death changes the fabric of the quiet, picture-perfect town her   ancestors founded. Even further, Willie learns that the story her mother had   always told her about her father has all been a lie: he wasn't the random man   from a free-love commune that Vi had led her to imagine, but someone else   entirely. Someone from this very town.  As Willie puts her archaeological skills to work digging for   the truth about her lineage, she discovers that the secrets of her family run   deep. Through letters, editorials, and journal entries, the dead rise up to tell   their sides of the story as dark mysteries come to light, past and present blur,   old stories are finally put to rest, and the shocking truth about more than one   monster is revealed.

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