Lies We Tell OurselvesIn 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

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and over the coming weeks Romy and Wilhelm begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century

and life histories

Once you've visited

starters and sides

And in a high-octane thriller

survival means more than just a steady aim

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Intensely personal

and eventually they marry

Sam must navigate the labyrinthine palace and its many glamorous—and secretive—residents to complete her assignment

an evocative style and an idiom that is contemporary