Lockart, E. We Were Liars. 2014. 240p. ISBN 978-0385741262. Available as an eBook on Overdrive. This book has been nominated for the New Hampshire Flume award in 2015!
The Sinclair families spend every summer on Beechwood Island, their idyllic vacation spot near Martha’s Vineyard. A rich and powerful family, the Sinclairs are beautiful. They are privileged. They are damaged. But most of all, they are liars!
In the 15th summer of Cadence’s life, something went horribly wrong. She had an accident and lost her memory. Every summer she has spent at Beechwood with her cousins, Johnny, Mirren, and Johnny’s friend Gat. All the same age, they are known as the liars and spent countless hours hanging out together. Cadence’s feelings for Gat grew until she fell in love with him, but it’s a difficult relationship because Gat isn't only not a Sinclair but also Indian, and Grandfather Harris, the patriarch of the family, doesn’t like him.
After her memory loss, Cadence starts having headaches and physical pains. She changes her hair color and gives away all her possessions. On the summer of her 16th birthday, she spends time in Europe with her estranged father, sending emails and messages to the liars at Beechwood but receiving nothing back.
So when she returns to the island during the summer of her 17th birthday, she is surprised that Clairmont, her grandfather’s ancient Victorian house, has been rebuilt in a modern Japanese style. Her cousins are happy to see her, but each of them now has issues, and nothing is the same. They don’t come up to the main residence for family meals. They are slobs, and Mirren is always sick. Worse of all, they don’t or can’t talk to Cadence about what happened in the summer when she was 15. How did Cadence lose her memory? Did Gat and her have a fallout? Was she attacked? Why are all family members acting so differently from two summers ago?
Told from an unreliable protagonist, the surprising twists keep on coming, and the tragedy, when it strikes, will leave the reader breathless and shocked.
If you liked this book, consider reading Thirteen Reasons Why, Please Ignore Vera Dietz, If I Stay, Zoe Letting Go, Black Box, The Vanishing Season, or Kiss of Broken Glass. All of these books feature a tragedy and a voyage of self-discovery as the central element of the plot.
If you liked this book, consider reading Thirteen Reasons Why, Please Ignore Vera Dietz, If I Stay, Zoe Letting Go, Black Box, The Vanishing Season, or Kiss of Broken Glass. All of these books feature a tragedy and a voyage of self-discovery as the central element of the plot.
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