Books It’s Not About the Money The backlash to Belle Burden’s Strangers is missing one important consideration. By Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Scaachi Koul ? May 29, 2026 5:45 AM Belle Burden with then-husband Henry Davis in 2008. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Well, you know what they say—there are three sides to every story: your side, their side, and the truth. Memoir always lives in the margins between what each party thinks happened and the few details that can be verified as undeniable fact. If a writer can’t be unassailably truthful in their writing—something no one can fully do, not about their own stories—the most you can get is core emotional honesty. The best memoirs are not, then, factual. They’re just sincere.…