The Bookworm says... Yes! Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley was a very good book. Sarah Dunbar and her younger sister, along with several kids from their neighborhood, are the first black students in an all white high school in 1959 Virginia. Jefferson is supposed to be a better place for them, where they will get a better education, even though they will have to integrate for it. Easier said than done. Jefferson High and the torments it brings to Sarah are practically unbearable. She gets assigned a French project, on which she will work with two white girls. Forced to do the project, Sarah, Linda, and Judy have to be civil. Over the course of the project, the girls learn how to coexist, find right from wrong, have their own opinions, and search deep inside themselves for their true thoughts about each other.
An amazing story of willpower, courage, and determination. Sarah Dunbar and her friends are some of the most courageous characters I have ever read about. A story that confronts some of the social issues that held us in iron claws in 1959, and continues to grip us so tightly today. Monumental and drowning in emotion, Lies We Tell Ourselves confronts just that, the lies we tell ourselves.
"Everyone is counting on me. I can't be a failure. I won't."
