--- product_id: 25535319 title: "Lies We Tell Ourselves: A New York Times bestseller" price: "2006CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: false reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/25535319-lies-we-tell-ourselves-a-new-york-times-bestseller store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Lies We Tell Ourselves: A New York Times bestseller **Price:** 2006CFA **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Lies We Tell Ourselves: A New York Times bestseller - **How much does it cost?** 2006CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/25535319-lies-we-tell-ourselves-a-new-york-times-bestseller) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Review: One of the best reads this year! - This might have been one of my favourite reads this year (this and another one). I honestly didn't expect it to be this good, but it proved me completely wrong. I was hooked within the first few pages, and more so when the story got going. This book was a good glimpse in this dark part of history, never once trying candy coat it. And it wasn't put aside so that the two characters that fall in love isn't the main plot. It was a nice change, when most books will do just that. The writing was real and left me feeling like I was there, leaving me nervous with them, with my heart pounding. I stayed up late most nights reading, not able to put it down and my eyes burning. I found myself relating to the moments when the characters admitted they were gay, that they might love another woman, but that maybe all they had been told that it was wrong, wasn't true. How they felt about being in relationships with men, how there was simply nothing there, I felt like they were describing my own experience before I came out. Now that I'm done, I miss the character and I wish I could know more. And I'm so happy how it ended. Review: Eye-Opener - Sarah Dunbar is in one of the first groups of black students to integrate into the all white Jefferson High School in Virginia in 1959. From the first day of school and onward, she and her cohorts are harassed and threatened by the white students (and the teachers). They are subject to a number of humiliations and violence. Sarah, an honor student at her all black school, is put into remedial classes simply because she is black and the white administration has decided that black kids aren’t capable of keeping up with the white kids intellectually. Sarah endures the endless days of being spit on, having things thrown at her, being called names, being pushed and shoved, etc. She does all this and tries to protect her little sister, who is also in the integrating group, at the same time. She harbors some ill feelings towards her parents and the local leaders of the NAACP for encouraging herself and the others to go into this school, but does her best to hold her head high and persevere. Meanwhile, there is a white student at the school, Linda Hairston, who is the daughter of the main newspaper’s editor and most outspoken critic of de-segregation. Linda hates and fears her father but has been brought up hearing negative things about black people and believes in all the “reasons” the races should stay “separate but equal”. She sees the new black students as “instigators” and is irritated that they weren’t happy to simply stay at their own school. She writes editorials for the school newspaper that blame the black kids for the abuse they are enduring at the hands of the whites. In her mind, they are ungrateful and lesser people who have arrived out of their selfishness to ruin her senior year. When Sarah and Linda end up assigned to work on a project together, both are upset about it. Sarah knows Linda’s feelings about herself and the other black kids, and Linda not only feels she is above having to work with Sarah on the project, but also fears her father’s reaction if he finds out about it. So, they decide to meet secretly. As they are forced to interact more and more, Linda starts to question the things she has been brought up to believe about blacks. However, she has a habit of seeing Sarah as different from the others, continuing her dislike for the other black students. Linda waivers back and forth between liking Sarah and hating her. Some of the things that come out of Linda’s mouth are so offensive, it’s hard to believe Sarah would even continue to try to get through to her, but she does, and they end up forming a special friendship. I really liked Lies We Tell Ourselves for the most part. I think it’s a very important book, and one that everyone should read, just to experience what Sarah and the others went through in a first person narrative. It’s so much different than reading about this period of history in a textbook or even a non-fiction book. This feels so much more personal. I felt the fear, anger, and the humiliation along with Sarah. I even empathized somewhat with Linda, who was so much a product of her environment and her overbearing father. That doesn’t excuse the way she acted, but I was able to understand her character. The secondary characters were well-developed, and I was able to see things from their points of view as well, especially Ruthie’s. The problem I had with Lies We Tell Ourselves, which is going to keep me from giving it five stars, is the budding romance between Sarah and Linda. It’s not that it was an inter-racial lesbian relationship, I don’t have a problem with that, it’s more that it was a relationship between two people from such different mindsets, backgrounds, and histories. I never felt that Linda accepted the equality of blacks, especially so much so that she would consider getting involved romantically with Sarah. I also never understood Sarah’s interest in Linda, other than to educate her on her misconceptions of the different races. They just seemed too different to me. I never really felt any chemistry between them either, unless it was supposed to be in the almost constant arguments. I understand the link between racial and sexual prejudice, but I think it was just too much to take on in one book. I think it would have been much better had the relationship between Linda and Sarah been left as simply a friendship. However, that said, I would still recommend the book as a good eye-opener into the history of integration. You can see more of my book reviews at Bookworm Book Reviews. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #3,802,645 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #481 in Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Prejudice & Racism #978 in Teen & Young Adult Historical Romance #1,125 in Teen & Young Adult LGBTQ+ Romance | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,031 Reviews | ## Images ![Lies We Tell Ourselves: A New York Times bestseller - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91qBhctoCoL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the best reads this year! *by M***H on November 14, 2014* This might have been one of my favourite reads this year (this and another one). I honestly didn't expect it to be this good, but it proved me completely wrong. I was hooked within the first few pages, and more so when the story got going. This book was a good glimpse in this dark part of history, never once trying candy coat it. And it wasn't put aside so that the two characters that fall in love isn't the main plot. It was a nice change, when most books will do just that. The writing was real and left me feeling like I was there, leaving me nervous with them, with my heart pounding. I stayed up late most nights reading, not able to put it down and my eyes burning. I found myself relating to the moments when the characters admitted they were gay, that they might love another woman, but that maybe all they had been told that it was wrong, wasn't true. How they felt about being in relationships with men, how there was simply nothing there, I felt like they were describing my own experience before I came out. Now that I'm done, I miss the character and I wish I could know more. And I'm so happy how it ended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Eye-Opener *by K***. on February 5, 2015* Sarah Dunbar is in one of the first groups of black students to integrate into the all white Jefferson High School in Virginia in 1959. From the first day of school and onward, she and her cohorts are harassed and threatened by the white students (and the teachers). They are subject to a number of humiliations and violence. Sarah, an honor student at her all black school, is put into remedial classes simply because she is black and the white administration has decided that black kids aren’t capable of keeping up with the white kids intellectually. Sarah endures the endless days of being spit on, having things thrown at her, being called names, being pushed and shoved, etc. She does all this and tries to protect her little sister, who is also in the integrating group, at the same time. She harbors some ill feelings towards her parents and the local leaders of the NAACP for encouraging herself and the others to go into this school, but does her best to hold her head high and persevere. Meanwhile, there is a white student at the school, Linda Hairston, who is the daughter of the main newspaper’s editor and most outspoken critic of de-segregation. Linda hates and fears her father but has been brought up hearing negative things about black people and believes in all the “reasons” the races should stay “separate but equal”. She sees the new black students as “instigators” and is irritated that they weren’t happy to simply stay at their own school. She writes editorials for the school newspaper that blame the black kids for the abuse they are enduring at the hands of the whites. In her mind, they are ungrateful and lesser people who have arrived out of their selfishness to ruin her senior year. When Sarah and Linda end up assigned to work on a project together, both are upset about it. Sarah knows Linda’s feelings about herself and the other black kids, and Linda not only feels she is above having to work with Sarah on the project, but also fears her father’s reaction if he finds out about it. So, they decide to meet secretly. As they are forced to interact more and more, Linda starts to question the things she has been brought up to believe about blacks. However, she has a habit of seeing Sarah as different from the others, continuing her dislike for the other black students. Linda waivers back and forth between liking Sarah and hating her. Some of the things that come out of Linda’s mouth are so offensive, it’s hard to believe Sarah would even continue to try to get through to her, but she does, and they end up forming a special friendship. I really liked Lies We Tell Ourselves for the most part. I think it’s a very important book, and one that everyone should read, just to experience what Sarah and the others went through in a first person narrative. It’s so much different than reading about this period of history in a textbook or even a non-fiction book. This feels so much more personal. I felt the fear, anger, and the humiliation along with Sarah. I even empathized somewhat with Linda, who was so much a product of her environment and her overbearing father. That doesn’t excuse the way she acted, but I was able to understand her character. The secondary characters were well-developed, and I was able to see things from their points of view as well, especially Ruthie’s. The problem I had with Lies We Tell Ourselves, which is going to keep me from giving it five stars, is the budding romance between Sarah and Linda. It’s not that it was an inter-racial lesbian relationship, I don’t have a problem with that, it’s more that it was a relationship between two people from such different mindsets, backgrounds, and histories. I never felt that Linda accepted the equality of blacks, especially so much so that she would consider getting involved romantically with Sarah. I also never understood Sarah’s interest in Linda, other than to educate her on her misconceptions of the different races. They just seemed too different to me. I never really felt any chemistry between them either, unless it was supposed to be in the almost constant arguments. I understand the link between racial and sexual prejudice, but I think it was just too much to take on in one book. I think it would have been much better had the relationship between Linda and Sarah been left as simply a friendship. However, that said, I would still recommend the book as a good eye-opener into the history of integration. You can see more of my book reviews at Bookworm Book Reviews. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Relevant *by C***E on November 28, 2016* I don't choose to read books that take place around a high school because that narrative often no longer speaks to me. However, Lies We Tell Ourselves is does so much more than just that. Despite juggling many different issues, Robin Talley writes a story about high school, about the 1950s, about things that may not connect with most adults today, and makes it relevant again. How Talley divides the chapters and the sections is amazing, lending to well-paced story with moments of relief when needed. The development of her two main characters as well as the small changes with Ruth and Chuck and the little reveals of other side characters like Jack show how well Talley can keep track of her characters and make them as interesting and as important as they should be to deserve being included in this complicated and rich story. I read this is one afternoon after buying it immediately after finishing the sample. There were moments when I was angry, moments when I laughed, moments when I frowned, when I had to put it down, when I had to take a deep breath. There are some subtleties that affected me a little harder because of my own experiences, but the growth that Sarah and Linda both experience, that strength that they both unlock towards the end, is so important. And I wish this book was published just a few years earlier. But it was published two years ago, and it takes place over a half century ago, yet the themes and messages are still relevant today. I recommend this for everyone. 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