What I Saw and How I Lied Book

I know, very few of my Goodreads' friends have read or liked What I Saw And How I Lied, but I am so very grateful that such stories are even written and published these days. Historical fiction is not in vogue right now, unless, of course, it involves cattiness and soapy melodrama, it seems.

For one, I loved the atmosphere of this novel. It gave me the same feeling of strange nostalgia for post-WWII America, the way Mad Men does - red lips, cigarettes, glamor and privilege, with a generous pinch of unpleasant - sexism, homophobia and antisemitism.



And then, this is a story about growing up, about that time in your young life when you want to be an adult, to be attractive to men and to be taken seriously. But when you get a taste of this adulthood, it's not as sweet as you expected it to be. You learn that your parents are flawed, that being enticing to men has its cost. You learn to lie and pay dearly for your decisions.