Lies We Tell Ourselves: Shortlisted for the 2016 Carnegie Medal. Robin Talley

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      In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever.

      Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her old school, she is put into remedial classes, spit on and tormented daily.

      Linda Hairston is the daughter of one of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration. She has been taught all her life that the races should be kept "separate but equal."

      Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another.

      Boldly realistic and emotionally compelling, Lies We Tell Ourselves is a brave and stunning novel about finding truth amid the lies, and finding your voice even when others are determined to silence it.

      ROBIN TALLEY grew up in Roanoke, Virginia, writing terrible teen poetry and riding a desegregation bus to the school across town. A Lambda Literary Fellow, Robin lives in Washington, DC, with her fiancée, plus an antisocial cat and a goofy dog. When Robin's not writing, she's often planning communication strategies at organisations fighting for equal rights and social justice. You can find her on the web at www.robintalley.com or on Twitter @robin_talley.

      ISBN: 978-1-472-05514-9

      LIES WE TELL OURSELVES

      © 2014 Robin Talley

      Published in Great Britain 2014

       by HQ, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

      All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This edition is published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, locations and incidents are purely fictional and bear no relationship to any real life individuals, living or dead, or to any actual places, business establishments, locations, events or incidents. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental.

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      Version: 2018-10-26

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      Delores Johnson Brown

      LaVera Forbes Brown

      Louis Cousins

      Alveraze Frederick Gonsouland

      Andrew Heidelberg

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      May your courage resonate with every generation

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       About the Author

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

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