Professor Ansel Tone is a “celebrity historian” who writes about revisionist history, drives fast cars and runs with fast women. He also sleeps with his students and steals their work. What happens when his Trinity College classmate Charlie starts writing a novel about meeting his wife at Trinity? Ansel may accept that Charlie married the beautiful Tess, Ansel’s girlfriend that year, but how Charlie remembers the story threatens to upend Ansel’s the setting of New York City and Charlie’s Hudson Valley Mountain House, Backstory is about Charlie digging into the past, Ansel struggling to rewrite his past, and Tess wondering if she wound up with the right New York City Big Book Award for Mystery; Silver Medal Winner - Wishing Shelf Book Awards for Adult Fiction; Kindle Book Award for Literary Fiction Semi-finalist; 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Category