People have asked him to come clean. That means he needs to say why he believes he has indigenous ancestry. Who told him? When was he told? What exactly did they tell them? He's always been vague about these questions. But they should be easy to answer. Unless he's the source of all the family stories.

His claims varied. True. But how was it a narrow range? If I told you my mother's family was from Sudbury and my father's was from Montreal, then a year later I told you my mother's family was from Thunder Bay and my father's was from Kingston, you wouldn't say I had erred in a narrow range because those cities were vaguely in the same areas. Heck, no. You'd say I had a problem knowing where my family came from and that I'd better check with my family to see what the truth was.

Boyden writes fiction. That I don't object to. He can write anything he wants when he calls it fiction. What I object to is when what he says is fact turns out to be fiction. Can you see what the sin is now?