After forty years of sharing quiet companionship with Jack, meeting twice a week, living separately and loving each other in their own way, Marsh Rose is left with more questions than answers after a sudden crisis ends their time together. In her new memoir, A Version of the Truth (Sunbury Press, October 7), Marsh reflects on the mysteries that even deep intimacy can never fully solve.

Set in Northern California wine country, the book moves through decades of small but meaningful moments, from home repairs to bird feeder battles to the adoption of a dog, and ending with a surreal twist, painting a portrait of an unconventional love. This is a story of grief, aging and coming to peace with uncertainty.

With tenderness and clarity, A Version of the Truth invites readers to consider what it means to truly know another person and how we construct meaning from what we’ll never fully understand.

Marsh Rose is an author, freelance writer and psychotherapist. Her preferred genre is memoir and creative nonfiction, and her short stories and essays have appeared in a variety of publications including Cosmopolitan Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon and Carve Magazine among others. Her essay, “False Memory,” won first prize for creative nonfiction from New Millennium Writings in 2018 and she was a winner in Tulip Tree’s “Wild Women” contest, June/July 2025, for her essay “Dinosaur Rock.” She has also authored two novels, Lies and Love in Alaska and Escape Routes. Marsh began her writing life at the age of 14 as a cub reporter in Massachusetts, changed careers when she became a licensed psychotherapist in 1992, and now divides her time among writing, her on-line psychotherapy practice, and her passion for rescuing racing greyhounds. She lives in the wine country in northern California with her greyhound, Adin.