Lies We Tell Ourselves
by:
Robin Talley (author)
It's 1959. The battle for civil rights is raging. And it's Sarah Dunbar's first day of school, as one of the first black students at the previously all-white Jefferson High. No one wants Sarah there. Not the Governor. Not the teachers. And certainly not the students – especially Linda Hairston,...
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It's 1959. The battle for civil rights is raging. And it's Sarah Dunbar's first day of school, as one of the first black students at the previously all-white Jefferson High. No one wants Sarah there. Not the Governor. Not the teachers. And certainly not the students – especially Linda Hairston, daughter of the town’s most ardent segregationist. Sarah and Linda have every reason to despise each other. But as a school project forces them to spend time together, the less their differences seem to matter. And Sarah and Linda start to feel something they've never felt before. Something they're both determined ignore. Because it's one thing to be frightened by the world around you - and another thing altogether when you're terrified of what you feel inside.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781848452923 (1848452926)
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
That was a tough read. I was sort of expecting a fluffy romance with this one. Not a gut wrenching punch in the feels. Some of this was very very difficult to read, what Sarah and her friends go through is horrendous. Though difficult to ready the character growth shown by Sarah and Linda was pre...
I liked Lies We Tell Ourselves, but it just didn’t quite live up to the hype I had for it. Then again, it had a lot of hype going for it. So, I guess it was bound to be sort of a disappointment. Let’s talk about the good first, because there’s a lot of good with this book. I loved how Talley...
This is an interesting Young Adult book about the struggles the African descendants had when they first integrated white schools in the US in the 1950s. If it had stayed on topic I might well have been giving five stars, unfortunately the impact was lost with the introduction of a homosexual element...
This might have been one of my favourite reads this year (this and another one). I honestly didn't expect it to be this good, but it proved me completely wrong. I was hooked within the first few pages, and more so when the story got going. This book was a good glimpse in this dark part of history, n...
This book rocked my world! I loved this book as it stirred in me a passion that needed to be awakened. I was naïve enough to start this book an hour before my typical bedtime which silly me, put me 2 hours past my typical bedtime before I could actually find a place to put my bookmark in for the nig...
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