Lies

A powerful debut author from one of the literary world's finest editors and translators, "Lies" examines the compelling questions that surround mistaken identity and one family's history. Isabel, an anthropologist, is pronounced dead after a boating accident. Not sure if she'll ever tell the world that she is still alive, Isabel wanders through life pondering her "death" and recounting her stories. Thousands of miles away, Isabel's daughter, Serena, is trying to piece together the family's history before her ailing father joins her supposedly dead mother in the grave. As the novel progresses, stories join, truth is found, and the mysteries of storytelling take center stage.