On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Original Pub. Date: September 30th,
2014
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
384 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads
In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever.
Sarah Dunbar is one of the first
black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An
honors student at her old school, she is put into remedial classes, spit on and
tormented daily.
Linda Hairston is the daughter of
one of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration. She has been
taught all her life that the races should be kept separate but
equal.
Forced to work together on a school
project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how
they really feel about one another.
Boldly realistic and emotionally
compelling, Lies We Tell Ourselves is a brave and stunning novel about finding
truth amid the lies, and finding your voice even when others are determined to
silence it.
So, what do you think? Is it one that you'd like to add to your wish list? Have you already read it?
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