Liar
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3.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
The ultimate unreliable narrator takes readers on a thrill ride in this highly acclaimed novel. Prepare to grasp for truth until the very last page.
Micah is a liar. That's the one thing she won't lie about. Over the years, she's duped her classmates, her teachers, and even her parents. But when her boyfriend Zach dies under brutal circumstances, Micah sets out to tell the truth. At first the truth comes easily. Other truths are so unbelievable, so outside the realm of normal, they must be a lie. And the honest truth is buried so deep in Micah's mind even she doesn't know if it's real.
"Readers will get chills . . . [and] be guessing and theorizing long after they've finished this gripping story." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
"[Micah's] suspenseful, supernatural tale is engrossing. . . . The chilling story she spins will have readers' hearts racing." -School Library Journal, starred review
"An engrossing story of teenage life on the margins." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2009
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Readers will get chills paging through Larbalestier's (How to Ditch Your Fairy) suspenseful novel about a compulsive liar who becomes a suspect in her boyfriend's murder. Micah admits it is hard to believe a girl who has pretended "she's a boy, a hermaphrodite, or that her daddy's an arms dealer," but when Zach, the popular boy who was secretly seeing her "after hours," is found dead, Micah claims innocence, promising to tell readers her story with "No lies, no omissions." But the supernatural tale she tells may be her wildest yet. Micah composes her story in short sections labeled "Before" and "After" (the murder), as well as "History of Me," "Family History" and other categories. This is a well-paced novel with a masterfully constructed unreliable narrator, confessing to lies she has told readers along the way ("You buy everything, don't you? You make it too easy") and explaining how she makes lies believable. Could Micah really be innocent, or is she a confused girl who killed out of jealousy? Is she even human? Readers will be guessing and theorizing long after they've finished this gripping story. Ages 14 up.
