| A powerfully moving novel of family love, loyalty, honesty and dishonesty by the author of Safekeeping and A Fragile Peace. "" White Lies is Jonellen Heckler s story of Sterling, Roz and Quinn, three sisters close in age but not in temperament, told through letters they write and receive, from their college days to adulthood. In 1963 Sterling, the oldest, starts the chain of correspondence when she inar- ties, not out of love, but out of a desire to be a wife and mother. One at a time, her sisters leave home, Roz to a clandestine existence that will haunt her years later, Quinn to a budding, exhilarating career as an investigative reporter. As they write back and forth we see life at its most intimate--the thrill of new love, unquenchable ambition, outrageous success and white lie aftcr white he told to preserve relationships. For the sisters come of age in the 60s and 70s, a time of such upheaval that personal decisions become political statements that threaten to destroy the bond belween the threewomen--if not for the little white liesthey tell.But as Sterling, Roz and Quinnlearn, all lies, nO matter how small, comewith a price. White Lies is a remarkable portrait offamily life as it really is, by a novelist ofuncommon perception and integrity. |
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