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Sones, Sonya

To Be Perfectly Honest: A Novel Based on an Untrue Story

480 pp. | Simon | August, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-689-87604-2 $17.99
(4) YA "I'm what / your English teacher / calls an 'unreliable narrator.'" Through first-person free-verse poems, fifteen-year-old Colette explains her pathology then relates a summer away on location with her movie-star mom and little brother during which she falls for a guy and discovers the hazards of chronic lying. Some character relationships feel murky, but the pithy, swift-moving verse packs a punch.
Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

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