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"This novel is about three sisters close in age but not in temperament, told through letters they write and receive from their college days to adulthood. In 1963 the oldest sister starts the chain of correspondence when she marries, not out of love, but out of a desire to be a wife and mother. One at a time, her sisters leave home, the second to a clandestine existence that will haunt her years later, the third 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 after white lie 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 among the three women - if not for the little white lies they tell. But as they learn, all lies, no matter how small, come with a price.
WHITE LIES is a remarkable portrait of family life as it really is, by a novelist of uncommon perception and integrity."
WHITE LIES is a remarkable portrait of family life as it really is, by a novelist of uncommon perception and integrity."
